Venue: Virtual Meeting
Contact: Louise Smith, Democratic Services, Email: louise.smith@bcpcouncil.gov.uk Email: democratic.services@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
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Apologies To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors. Minutes: There were no apologies for absence. |
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Substitute Members To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.
Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications.
Minutes: There were no substitutes. |
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Declarations of Interests Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance. Declarations received will be reported at the meeting. Minutes: Councillor Moore declared an interest Agenda Item 6 Children and Young People’s Partnership Plan 2021-24 as a Trustee of Canford Heath Infant and Middle School Teacher Trust as its clear they have input quite a lot into it. |
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Confirmation of Minutes To confirm and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Meeting held on 26 January 2021. Minutes: RESOLVED that the Minutes of the Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 26 January 2021, having been previously circulated, be signed by the Chair and confirmed as a correct record. |
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Minutes: There were no comments on the Action Sheet. |
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Public Issues To receive any public questions, statements or petitions submitted in accordance with the Constitution, which is available to view at the following link:
https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeID=151&Info=1&bcr=1
The deadline for the submission of a public question is 4 clear working days before the meeting. The deadline for the submission of a public statement is midday the working day before the meeting. The deadline for the submission of a petition is 10 working days before the meeting.
Minutes: There were no public issues received. |
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Children and Young People's Partnership Plan 2021 - 2024 The draft BCP Children and Young People’s Plan has been developed by the BCP Children and Young People’s Partnership Board, the successor body to the previous Learning Partnership Board. The difference is to focus on all issues for children, not just education and to a lesser extent, children’s social care.
Having a plan in place is a requirement placed on BCP by the Local Government Reorganisation process so in that sense it is a plan required by Government of us. The draft Plan sets out the proposed strategic priorities for partnership action to improve outcomes for BCP’s children and young people and to help them achieve their potential. It is consistent with existing BCP policy about improving child outcomes
Central to this is that the Council plays its part in the Partnership to help BCP’s children and young people to be “fulfilled, happy, included, and resilient”.
This report provides a copy of the draft plan at Appendix 1 to the report.
The draft Plan has been subject to public consultation during the month of January 2021.
This Plan, when finalised, will be championed by the multi-agency BCP Children and Young People’s Partnership Board. An action plan will be an integral part of the final document. This will be monitored through the Board. Additional documents: Minutes: The Independent Chair of the Children and Young People’s Partnership Board (C&YPPB) presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The draft BCP Children and Young People’s Plan had been developed by the BCP C&YPPB, the successor body to the previous Learning Partnership Board. The difference was to focus on all issues for children, not just education and to a lesser extent, children’s social care.
Having a plan in place was a requirement placed on BCP by the Local Government Reorganisation process so in that sense it is a plan required by Government of us. The draft Plan sets out the proposed strategic priorities for partnership action to improve outcomes for BCP’s children and young people and to help them achieve their potential. It was consistent with existing BCP policy about improving child outcomes
Central to this was that the Council played its part in the Partnership to help BCP’s children and young people to be “fulfilled, happy, included, and resilient”.
A copy of the draft plan could be found at Appendix 1 to the report.
The draft Plan had been subject to public consultation during the month of January 2021.
This Plan, when finalised, would be championed by the multi-agency BCP C&YPPB. An action plan would be an integral part of the final document. This would be monitored through the Board.
The Committee discussed the Report and comments were made, including:
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Covid - Children's Services To receive a verbal update from the Portfolio Holder with responsibility for Covid and the Interim Corporate Director, Children’s Services with a Committee report being brought to the next Committee. Minutes: The Interim Corporate Director, Children Services advised that this was a verbal update and informed the Committee of information, including:
The Portfolio Holder with responsibility for Covid Resilience, Schools and Skills addressed the Committee and provided a verbal update which included the following information:
The Committee discussed the verbal update and in response to a query about the proposed catch up opportunities over the summer holidays, the Committee was advised that this was only one of many discussions being undertaken in Government. The Committee was reassured that any measures taken within BCP would be led by what the children needed and that a plan and clear vision to support the children and parents moving forward was being formed.
The Chair thanked the Interim Directors, Children’s Services and the Portfolio ... view the full minutes text for item 139. |
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Items for Information - BCP Children's Services Complaints and Representations Annual Report 2019-2020 |
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To consider the Committee’s Forward Plan. Minutes: The Chair explained to the Committee the reasons why the item on the Bournemouth Learning Centre – Capital Investment to expand SEND provision for Longspee Special School had been removed from the agenda for this meeting and that it would come back once it was ready to be considered by the Committee and Cabinet.
The Committee was advised that an Information only report would be circulated via email on the BCP Children’s Services Complaints and Representations Annual Report 2019-2020. |
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Dates of Future Meetings To note the dates of future Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committees as follows: · 23 March 2021 · 8 June 2021 · 27 July 2021 · 21 September 2021 · 23 November 2021 · 25 January 2022 · 22 March 2022
All meetings will commence at 6pm and venues to be confirmed.
Minutes: The dates of future meetings were noted. |