Executive member for children's services and educationCouncillor Rajan assumes the statutory role of lead member for children’s services in accordance with the guidance produced by the DCSF, including responsibility for children's social care, services for schools and pupils, early years and youth services, the inclusion agenda, and work to develop and implement the children and young people's plan. The executive member also be responsible for post-16 education and adult learning and will work closely with the executive member for health and social care (with regard to children’s health) and with the executive member for community safety (with regard to children’s safety and youth offending).
Councillor Rajan has particular responsibility for:
- Ensuring the Council, with its partners, delivers the Every Child Matters outcomes for children and young people in Southwark including closing the gap between the most vulnerable and their peers
- The development of integrated services to children across Southwark, including those of voluntary and community sector partners
- Delivering and updating the Children and Young People’s Plan, including the key priorities of teenage pregnancy, obesity, attainment, reduced crime against young people and more for young people to do
- The Southwark Schools for the Future programme, including both our secondary (Building Schools for the Future) and primary capital programmes
- Ensure continuing improvement in attainment in all Southwark schools, including Academies
- Ensuring sufficient provision of quality, affordable childcare places across the Borough
- Developing the preventative agenda so that fewer children require intervention later in life
- Ensuring that children, young people and parents are involved in service improvement and are supported in making an effective contribution to service design and evaluation
- 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
- Monitor performance management and financial systems, including monitoring the expenditure of direct schools grant, to ensure improved outcomes for children and young people
- Ensuring recommendations from the Joint Area Review are implemented
You will find details of decisions that have been taken or are due to be taken below. 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 Rajan 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.
Youth Capital Fund 2008-9
Gateway 1 - Procurement Strategy Approval for the re-tendering of the contract for the council’s children’s residential homes under externalisation arrangements
London Youth Offer/Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) – Grant Funding Allocation: 2008 – 2010
More for Children and Young People to do - Children’s Services (Education) Grant Funding Plan: 2009 -2012
Gateway 1: Procurement strategy approval for the retendering of the contract for the council's children's residential homes under externalisation arrangements
- Report: Gateway 1: Procurement strategy approval for the retendering of the contract for the council's children's residential homes under externalisation arrangements [Not for publication by virtue of category 3a of paragraph 10.4 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Southwark Constitution: closed/exempt report]
- Date report published: August 28 2008
- Earliest decision date: September 5 2008
- Type of decision: key decision
- Decision: pending
- Status: pending
Outcome of the consultation process on the proposed permanent enlargement of Michael Faraday
Primary Strategy for Change
For individual executive member decisions taken in previous years, select from:
Contact us
Richard Blakeley
Tel: 020 7525 7232
richard.blakeley@southwark.gov.uk
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