The Overview and Scrutiny Officer referred Members
to recent press articles relating to theremit of Children and Young
People’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The articles
were:-
- North East students
praised for handling tougher exams – this headline was from
Tyne Tees News and reported that schools in the North East had
praised the GCSE results of the region’s students in what had
been one of the biggest shake ups in the UK’s education
history.
- New nursery in
Sedgefield will meet high demand for places – this headline
from the Northern Echo advised that Sedgefield primary school had
opened its new nursery unit to help meet the high demand for places
in the area and all 28 places had been filled.
- Children and Families
Partnership had been honoured with a visit from the
Children’s Commissioner – On 8 September the
Children’s Commissioner visited County Durham, which included
a visit to the Children and Families Partnership
meeting. The Children and Families
Partnership received the Commissioner’s Gold Award for their
work with the Take Over Challenge.
-
‘Historic@schools funding change confirmed – the BBC
report indicated that the Education Secretary had confirmed the new
funding formula for schools would be introduced 2018/19 and
2019/20. Arrangements were being made
for an item on school funding to come to a future Children and
Young People’s Overview and Scrutiny meeting.
Resolved:
That the presentation
be noted.