To receive declarations of personal and prejudicial interest (if any) from Members/Officers in accordance with the provisions of the Members Code of Conduct adopted by Council from 1 September 2008 (including whipping declarations)

None

The Chief Officer – Legal, HR & Regulatory Services submitted a report, the purpose of which was to request the Committee to nominate one Member as its Corporate Parenting Champion to represent the Committee as an invitee to meetings of the Cabinet Committee Corporate Parenting.

The Chairperson invited nominations, following which it was

RESOLVED:                        That Councillor Cllr J Gebbie be nominated to represent Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 as an Invitee to meetings of the Cabinet Committee Corporate Parenting.

The Chief Officer – Legal, HR & Regulatory Services submitted a report, the purpose of which was to request the Committee to nominate one Member to sit on the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel.

The Chairperson invited nominations, following which it was

RESOLVED:                        That Councillor Cllr SK Dendy be nominated to represent Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 as an Invitee to meetings of the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel.

The Senior Democratic Services Officer – Scrutiny presented the Committee with the proposed draft outline Forward Work Programme (FWP) (Appendix A) for discussion and consideration, requested any specific information the Committee identified to be included in the items for the next two meetings, including invitees they wished to attend, requested the Committee to identify any further items for consideration on the Forward Work Programme having regard to the selection criteria in paragraph 4.6 and asked the Committee to note that the proposed draft Forward Work Programmes for the Committee would be reported to the next meeting of COSC, with the comments from each respective Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee, following consideration in their June Committee meetings.

Following presentation of the report and discussion, Members of the Committee proposed the following item to be added to the FWP :

• How schools coped with the pandemic (early next year)

Members also requested Invitees for the next meeting for the report upon Additional Learning Needs include:

• An experienced ALN Teacher /  ALN Coordinators from a Primary and Secondary School;
• Headteacher representatives from Secondary and Primary schools with ALN knowledge across a geographical spread of the County Borough

In addition Members requested the following:

• Information regarding the Everyone’s Invited list of Schools within the County Borough
• Assurance regarding Corporate safeguarding procedures in Bridgend
• Statistics for Child Protection referrals from Schools
• That consideration be given to consulting Schools regarding potential topics for scrutiny.
• That the Minutes of the last two Scrutiny Committee meetings at which Additional Learning Needs (ALN) had been considered, be circulated to Members as background to the report upon ALN for the next meeting on 5th July.

RESOLVED:          That the Committee considered and agreed the proposed draft outline Forward Work Programme in Appendix A subject to the above and noted that the Forward Work Programme and any update from the Committee would be reported to the next meeting of COSC.

To consider any item(s) of business in respect of which notice has been given in accordance with Part 4 (paragraph 4) of the Council Procedure Rules and which the person presiding at the meeting is of the opinion should by reason of special circumstances be transacted at the meeting as a matter of urgency

None