Agenda

Full Meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee

All Members of the Committee Should Attend.

To invite Members of the Committee to make any declarations of pecuniary and non-pecuniary interest in connection with the items on this agenda.

To approve the minutes of the previous meetings of the Committee (attached) as follows:-

12^th September 2023         Full Committee

10^th October 2023             Sustainable Barnsley Workstream

31^st October 2023              Growing Barnsley Workstream

28^th November 2023          Healthy Barnsley Workstream

To consider a report of the Executive Director Core Services and the Executive Director Children’s Services on the Provisional Education Outcomes for Barnsley 2023 (Item 3a) as well as the supporting data tables (Item 3b) and a report on the Review of Education Outcomes and Destinations of Children Not Entered for Exams, Including Those Electively Home Educated (Item 3c)

To note the redacted report of the Executive Director Core Services and the Executive Director Children’s Services on Children’s Social Care Performance for October 2023 (Item 4a) and the Monthly Performance Update Data Tables for October 2023 (Item 4b).

The public and press will be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the items so marked because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by the specific paragraphs of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended, subject to the public interest test.

To  consider the report of the Executive Director Core Services and the Executive Director Children’s Services on Children’s Social Care Performance for October 2023 (Item 6a), the Monthly Performance Update Data Tables for October 2023 (Item 6b), and the Understanding Children’s Social Care document (Item 6c).

To consider a report of the Executive Director Core Services and the Executive Director Children’s Services on the steps taken to strengthen Children’s Services.

Enquiries to Jane Murphy/Anna Marshall, Scrutiny Officer

Email scrutiny@barnsley.gov.uk