4 QUESTIONS AND PETITIONS PDF 193 KB
To
receive any questions or petitions.
Notes:
1.
The deadline for Member’s questions is 12.00pm
four working days before the meeting (Tuesday, 11
January).
2.
The deadline for public questions is seven days
before the meeting(Monday, 10 January)
3.
The deadline for petitions was 14 days before the
meeting, and no petitions have been received.
The
public retain their right to submit questions for written response,
with such answers recorded in the minutes of the meeting;
questioners may participate in meetings to ask a supplementary
question. Petitioners may address the Committee on their petition
for up to three minutes. Guidance will be made available to any
member of the public wishing to speak at a meeting.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
Witnesses:
Tina Benjamin, Director – Corporate Parenting
Matt Ansell, Director – Family Resilience and
Safeguarding
Liz
Mills, Director – Education and Lifelong Learning
- A question had been
received from a resident, Maria Esposito.
- As a supplementary
question, the questioner asked what happened when there the systems
in place failed. She added that systems were prone to failure and
that the boundaries of services were not joined up.
- The Director for
Corporate Parenting responded that there was little that could be
added to the written response as it described the systems in place.
She apologised for the occasions where failures had
occurred.
- A question had been
received from Fiona Davidson.
- Asking a
supplementary question, the Member queried whether November 2020
was the latest data available.
- The Director for
Family Resilience and Safeguarding apologised for the typographical
error and explained that the data was from November
2021.
- A second question had
been received from Fiona Davidson.
- The Member, as a
supplementary question, highlighted that data provided in response
to an action from the October 2021 meeting of the Select Committee
showed that approximately 51% of Education, Health and Care (EHC)
plans were completed in the south west quadrant, whereas data in
the answer to her current question showed a decline in timeliness.
The Member asked whether improvement had occurred, as the narrative
in the response to her question stated.
- The Director for
Education and Lifelong Learning replied that improvement had taken
place, although there was a dip in performance in the autumn term,
which was explained in the answer. The Director added that a report
on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) was to come to
the Select Committee in April 2022, when further information could
be provided on performance improvements.
- The Member
highlighted that data had been requested as part of a supplementary
question at the meeting of the Select Committee in December 2021
and had not yet been provided. The Chairman noted this and
requested that it be followed up by officers.