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Contact: Wyn Richards, Scrutiny Manager and Head of Democratic Services
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Apologies To receive apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from County Councillor G Morgan and County Councillor D Thomas (Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Transformation) and from Lynette Lovell (Director of Education and Children) |
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Election of Vice-Chair Arising from the Annual Meeting of the Council, to elect a Vice-Chair for the ensuing year. Minutes: RESOLVED that County Councillor Gareth D Jones be elected Vice-Chair for the ensuing year. |
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Disclosures of interest To receive any disclosures of interest by Members relating to items to be considered at the meeting. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest from Members relating to items for consideration on the agenda.
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Declarations of Party Whip To receive disclosures of prohibited party whips which a Member has been given in relation to the meeting in accordance with Section 78(3) of the Local Government Measure 2011.
(NB: Members are reminded that under Section 78 Members having been given a prohibited party whip cannot vote on a matter before the Committee.) Minutes: The Committee did not receive any disclosures of prohibited party whips which a Member has been given in relation to the meeting in accordance with Section 78(3) of the Local Government Measure 2011. |
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Transforming Education Programme - Ysgol Bro Hyddgen Capital Project PDF 157 KB To receive and consider the report of the Cabinet Member for a Learning Powys. Additional documents:
Minutes: Documents Considered: · Report of the Cabinet Member for a Learning Powys.
Issues Discussed: · Plans have been in place for some time to create a community school to include a leisure centre and library. However, the costs for all these elements on the site were too high for this to be progressed.
· Questions:
Leisure:
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Scrutiny Recommendations PDF 78 KB To receive the Cabinet's response to the following Scrutiny Recommendations:
(i) Llanfihangel Rhydithon (ii) Llanbedr
Additional documents: Minutes: Documents Considered: · Response to Scrutiny Recommendations – Llanfihangel Rhydithon · Response to Scrutiny Recommendations - Llanbedr
Issues Discussed:
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Outcomes: · Noted. |
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Work Programme To note that future meetings of the Committee are scheduled as follows:
Minutes:
The Head of Education outlined a hybrid model of professional learning for Members. This would be by means of pre-recorded videos prepared by officers which members could watch in their own time. Responses would then be captured. This is a process of professional learning used in Education.
It is the intention that a suite of slides and videos to be made available to Members regarding key elements such as school improvement, changes to the Estyn framework guidance, the new curriculum for Wales. This would assist time management for both Members and officers. Some of the key questions that officers were being asked could be answered by this process and the information could be shared to all Members. The Committee was requested to pilot this process and then the discussions at scrutiny could be tailored based on the discussions during the process.
Comments: · This does not replace scrutiny meetings. · There would continue to be discussions at scrutiny meetings as hearing the views of other Members is helpful during a debate. Observations could be drawn from the responses and considered by the Committee. It would also only be items which the Committee considered appropriate. In addition it would allow more targeted discussion at meetings with the background information already having been provided. · This would be a rolling programme and there are items which are due to come to scrutiny so the information could be provided in advance. · Whilst the Head of Education might suggest a list of subjects for the Committee to consider this would not prevent the Committee suggesting its own subjects for consideration.
Members decided that they were content to pilot the process.
Work Programme. The Committee noted the schedule of future meetings. It was noted that the performance reports would be delayed until the December meeting.
The Committee suggested the following additional subjects could be included in the work programme: · Annual updates on the Regional Educational Partnership with Ceredigion · Early years / pre school · ALN. · School transport · Scrutinising the Regional Skills Partnership and future skills for net zero. · Updates on the WESP
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