A meeting of the Children and Young People’s Panel will be held at The Byrchall High School, Warrington Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, WN4 9PQ at 6:00pm on Thursday, 6 November 2008.
The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:-
1 Apologies for absence:
2 Minutes: 11 September 2008
3 Urgent business (if any): To be accepted at the discretion of the Chairman of the meeting:
4 Exclusion of the public (if any): The Panel is asked to consider whether by resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of the item of business marked with an 'E' reference because of the possibility of the disclosure of exempt information.
5 Declarations of interest: To receive declarations of interest in any item for discussion at the meeting. A blank form for declaring interests has been circulated with the agenda, please ensure that this is returned to the Committee Clerk at the end of the meeting.
Open Items
6 Review of provision and use of resourced schools (.pdf, 392kb): Consultation on the provision of resourced places at Tyldesley Garrett Hall Primary School: Report of the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.
7 De-registration of the Gerard Unit as a Pupil Referral Unit (.pdf, 69kb): Report of the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.
8 Care Matters – Time for Change; the Government’s agenda for improving outcomes for children in care (.pdf, 113kb): Report of the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.
9 Equality, diversity and community cohesion issues relating to children and young people, including the recording of bullying incidents and hate-incidents (.pdf, 78kb): Report of the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.
10 Questions by Members at panel meetings:
Closed Items
E1 Quarterly reports: (a) Delegated decisions made by Chief Officers exceeding £250,000 or of strategic significance to the Council: There are none.
(b) Contracts signed with a value exceeding £150,000: There are none.
(c) Exceptions to Standing Orders approved by the Service Director - Corporate Services: There are none.
(d) Decisions to accept other than the lowest tender: There are none.