Issue - meetings

To receive an update on progress on the recommendations arising from the Overview & Scrutiny review of Extended Services in 2007.

The Committee received the report updating on extended services in and around schools, introduced by Belinda Evans, Head of Children’s Network West, and noted that 89% of schools were delivering all elements of the full core offer of extended schools services and there was a drive to provide further services for children in care.  Committee members suggested that there were not sufficient extended schools services in the west of the borough and the Director of Children & Young People’s Service invited comments from parents and councillors about which schools were not providing good extended services.

In response to the Committee’s concerns about how schools would fund extended services it was noted that schools were not expected to open premises for such services for free and were reimbursed any costs.  Schools were encouraged to have more than one group in at the same time to save on care-taking and other associated costs. 

RESOLVED that the progress on the recommendations arising from the Overview & Scrutiny Review of Extended Services in 2007 be noted.