Executive Member for Children's Services and EducationCouncillor Pidgeon's portfolio is to assume the statutory role of lead member for children's services, including
- Responsibility for children's social care
- Services for schools and pupils
- Early years and youth services
- The inclusion agenda
- Work to develop and implement the Children and Young People's Plan.
She is also responsible for post-16 education and adult learning and works closely with the executive member for health and adult care with regard to children's health.
She has particular responsibility for
- The integration of the new children's service, including realising efficiencies
- Ensuring that coordinated action is delivering improved outcomes, including improvements to attainment and achievement for all children and young people
- The Southwark Schools for the Future programme
- A strategy for expanding or rationalising primary provision where necessary
- Opening up new children’s centres and ensuring coherent and sufficient provision of quality, affordable childcare
- Healthy, nutritionally balanced meals for school children
- Taking forward the work of the Race Equality Education Forum
- Safeguarding children, including ensuring that all staff understand their responsibility for child protection and that all relevant agencies share responsibility for safeguarding and promoting welfare
- The corporate parenting role for children looked after by the council
- Monitoring the expenditure of direct schools grant and level of balances
- Ensuring fair, coordinated admissions arrangements to all schools of every type
You will find below details of decisions that have been taken or are due to be taken. You can check on the status of the decision that will show as 'decision pending', 'subject to scrutiny review' or 'decision implemented'.
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While the decision is pending, you can contact Cllr Pidgeon to make any oral or written representations in relation to the issue.
For decisions taken in previous municipal years, select from the links at the bottom of this page.
- Report: Authorisation of Debt Write-offs between £5,000 & £50,000 for Children’s Services Department [Not for publication by virtue of category 7 of paragraph 10.4 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Southwark Constitution]
- Date report published: March 6 2008
- Decision date: March 10 2008
- Type of decision: non key decision
- Decision: decision sheet not available for publication (closed/exempt report)
- Status: decision implemented
For individual executive member decisions taken in previous years, select from:
Individual Executive Member Decisions 2006-7
Individual Executive Member Decisions 2005-6
Contact us
Richard Blakeley
Tel: 020 7525 7232
richard.blakeley@southwark.gov.uk
3rd Floor
Town Hall
Peckham Road
London
SE5 8UB
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