Services for Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel
Services for Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel
Services for Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 5.00pm.
| 2nd June 2009 | 30th June 2009 | 28th July 2009 | 8th September 2009 | 6th October 2009 | 27th October 2009 |
| 17th November 2009 | 15th December 2009 | 12th January 2010 | 16th February 2010 | 9th March 2010 | 6th April 2010 |
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The Services for Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel was created at the Annual Business Council Meeting held on 23rd May 2006, and reflects changes to the service provision following the introduction of the Children Act 2004 in response to "Every Child Matters."
This means that the Panel has scrutiny responsibilities for the Services to Children and Young People Service Area and the cabinet warrants of office relating to Children and Young People and Lifelong Learning. This includes all education services, schools, educational achievements, childrens' health, social work, looked after children, the Youth Service and the Youth Offending Services.
As well as undertaking far reaching policy reviews, the Panel will also be monitoring the achievement and success for the Council's Building Schools for the Future propsals, Key Stage and GCSE results and the outcome of service inspections and assessments.
The membership of the Scrutiny Panel includes non-executive councillors together with places for six co-opted members representing Parent Governors, The Church of England, Roman Catholic Church and two places for other faiths. Through the Tameside Multi Faith Network the Panel has managed to recruit representatives of the Muslin and Hindu faiths to take these places.
Members
 Chair Councillor Vincent Ricci |
 Deputy Chair Councillor Ruth Welsh |
 Councillor W Brelsford |
 Councillor R Etchells |
 Councillor P Fitzpatrick |
 Councillor A Highton |
 Councillor C Patrick |
 Councillor S Quinn |
 Councillor J Sullivan |
 Councillor D Ward |
 Councillor B Wild |
Co-opted Members
Mrs Susan Marsh (Church of England)
Mr N Ahmed
Mrs T N Sharma
Mr M Osmond
Ms A Gregory
Rev Father James Clarke
Scrutiny Update - Autumn 2009
The Services for Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel is now concluding its review of the provision of music teaching and the opportunity for young people to experience music in Tameside.
The Scrutiny Panel has consulted widely, meeting and visiting the Youth Music Service, music teachers, the providers of music such as the Halle Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Camerata and many more, the Heads of the Bolton and Oldham Music Services (both with strong reputations for excellence) and of course the Tameside Music Service. The Scrutiny Panel members have held very frank discussions with the people they have met and the panel has received valuable information and advice which will help frame its conclusions and recommendations.
In line with practice established over many years, the Scrutiny Panel will examine the educational attainment levels in Tameside for 2009 and find out how effective the strategies for improvement have been during 2009 and what is planned for 2010. The Panel systematically monitors the quarterly Local Area Agreement targets but the consideration of educational attainment data is in far more depth with an opportunity to speak directly with those responsible for strategies for improvement.
The Scrutiny Panel’s report of the Follow Up Scrutiny Review into Bullying in Schools 434.63 KB 
was received by Council in September. This review, as the name implies, goes back and revisits a previous review report into bullying in schools. It discovered the progress made in implementing the recommendations from an earlier report and made further recommendations, especially about the sharing of good practice that will help improve the prevention of bullying. In general however, levels of bullying were shown to be below the national average and that there were a number of nationally recognised initiatives and examples of good practice in Tameside.
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 Scrutiny Support Unit Tameside MBC Council Offices Wellington Road Ashton under Lyne Lancs OL6 6DL View local map 
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