Children and Young People's Panel - Thursday 17 July 2008

A meeting of the Children and Young People’s Panel will be held in one of the Committee Rooms at the Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 17 July 2008.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:-

1 Apologies for absence:

2 Minutes: 22 May 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 Equality, diversity and community cohesion issues relating to children and young people, including the recording of hate-incidents (.pdf, 41kb): Report of the Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.

7 Children and Young People’s Services Quarter 4 2007/08 performance report (.pdf, 173kb): Report of the Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.

8 Children and Young People’s Plan 2008/11 (.pdf, 1306kb): Report of the Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.

9 Proposal to amalgamate St Peter’s CE Infant School and Nursery Unit, and St Peter’s CE Junior School Leigh (.pdf, 259kb): Report of the Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed. 

10 Decision making model for primary schools (.pdf, 461kb): Report of the Director of Children and Young People’s services enclosed.

11 Review of Advisory Panels and Overview and Scrutiny Select Committees: Joint report circulated under separate cover. Please bring your copy with you to each meeting you attend.

Cabinet at minute 36

  • endorsed the proposals set out in the report; and
  • authorised the Service Director, Borough Solicitor and Service Director - Business Transformation to seek the views of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the Audit Governance and Improvement Review Committee and the Advisory Panels and to report back to the Cabinet.

12 Questions by Members at panel meetings: