Decision details

It was AGREED to make the following comments on the suggested topics and to consider the work programme and priorities at the September meeting:

Linking the Science Community to County Schools – To include in the work programme scheduled for the spring.

Youth Centres – To form a joint Working Group with the Safer and Stronger Scrutiny Committee to consider admission policy to youth centres.

Children’s Trust - Councillors Godden and Sexon to attend the Strategy & Partnerships Select Committee item on Children’s Trust  on 22 July 2010 and report to the next Children’s Scrutiny Committee.

Young People and Employment or Education - To hold a seminar in Spring 2011 to further the conversation in reducing the number of young people not in full-time education, employment or training.

Anti-Bullying - To ask officers to update on the service strategy development as well as the latest performance data as part of the work programme.

Safeguarding - To ask officers for a briefing to the Committee on recent changes to safeguarding arrangements and the implications for the Council with a Q&A.

Development of ‘Free Schools’ - To ask officers to report to the Committee on the recent proposed changes for schools governance and funding and their possible implications for the Council with a Q&A.

Teenage Conception - To ask officers to report to the September or November meeting on the latest data with a Q&A.

Traveller Children and other Children who may switch schools frequently - To ask for an update following the proposed restructuring of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Service.  This update would be scheduled in the work programme for the spring of 2011 with a Q&A.

Behaviour in Schools - Councillors Ahmed, Bonner, Owen, Sexon and N Turner to visit the North Oxfordshire Academy with Sally Taylor and Councillor Waine on 24 September 2010 and to report their findings to the Committee. 

Admission to Special Schools (Suggested by Councillor Bonner) - To ask officers to report on the admission policy for pupils attending special schools with a Q&A.