1.
The Children and Families Committee will be responsible for those
services which help keep children and young people safe and enable
them to achieve their full potential. The responsibility
incorporates matters in relation to schools and attainment, early
help and family support and social care for children and families.
The Committee will oversee the work of the Corporate
Parenting Committee, which focuses on those children who are
cared for by the local authority and for whom the Council has
corporate parenting responsibility.
2.
The Committee’s responsibilities include:
·
determining policies and making decisions in
relation to the delivery of services to children and young people
in relation to their care, well-being, education and
health.
·
discharging the Council’s functions in
relation to children in need and child protection including
safeguarding and youth justice.
·
discharging the Council’s functions and powers
in relation to the provision of education and oversight of the
Schools Forum.
·
support to and maintenance of relationships with
schools in relation to raising standards of attainment.
·
the Council’s role as Corporate
Parent.
·
discharging the Council’s functions in
relation to Special Educational Needs and/or Disability
(SEND).
·
discharging the Council’s functions in
relation to early help and family support;
·
making arrangements for the nomination of school
governors
3.
Oversight, scrutiny, reviewing outcomes,
performance, budget monitoring and risk management of the
Directorates of Prevention and Support, Education and 14-19 Skills
and Children’s Social Care including: Education,
Children’s social care, Children’s mental health,
prevention, youth engagement, Children’s transport, SEND,
Safeguarding and the Children’s Trust and Board.
To view the committee’s
current work programme click
here.