Agenda item

The Panel received an update on the work of the Joint Parenting Panel since the last report to the Panel on 6 December 2018.

The Director of Children, Learning and Skills Services introduced the report, highlighting: the business conducted at the January meeting; the Corporate Parenting Strategy had been strongly praised by Ofsted; and that the primary CLA had performed  better than primary schools overall for good outcomes. The next meeting was due to be held the following week.

In response to a question from a Member regarding the expected year 11 performance, it was noted that every effort was made to give as much support as possible for them to do as well as they possibly could in order to maximise their outcomes. Further details on the current year 11 cohort would be given in the annual report from the Virtual School Head Teacher.

A Member referred to the areas for development given in the Corporate Parenting Strategy and was informed that these resulted from the 2015 Ofsted report and were not a recommendation in the recent Ofsted inspection.

Resolved: That the report be noted.