Scrutiny Committee for Children's Services – 26 September 2006

County Hall at 10am

Agenda

Minutes

Item 5A - Safeguarding children - member and senior management oversight of services

To advise Scrutiny Committee of the systems in place for senior managers and Members to ensure that services to safeguard children are properly co-ordinated and managed effectively. Appendix 1 is available as a hard copy by contacting Democratic Services

Item 5B - Safeguarding Children - local safeguarding children boards

To advise Scrutiny Committee Members of the inter-agency arrangements in place to safeguard children in East Sussex. Appendix 1 (East Sussex Local Safeguarding Children Board annual report) is available in hard copy by contacting Democratic Services

Item 6 - Reconciling policy and resources

To seek the Committee's views on the policy steers for the services under its purview

Item 7 - Scrutiny review of home to school transport

To present the outcomes of the review and the proposed recommendation.

Item 8 - Special Educational Needs Departmental Review

To update the committee on the progress on made with regard to the key recommendations of the SEN review

Item 9 - Scrutiny review of the Youth Offending Team

To present the Project Initiation Document for the scrutiny review of the Youth Development Team

Item 10 - Quarter 4 monitoring report against the 2005/06 Council Plan

To provide the scrutiny committee with an end of year summary of performance against the 2005/06 Council Plan

Item 11 - Scrutiny Commitee work programme 2005/06

Item 12 - Forward Plan