Children, Families, Learning and Leisure
a) The functions and areas of policy and decision making responsibility are:
- Statutory Lead Member for Children’s Services and all related responsibilities under section 19 of the Children Act 2004
- Strategic local leadership and development of the education and children’s services sector
- Champion across North Lincolnshire to drive for high educational standards for all children and young people, and in particular for the most disadvantaged groups
- Children’s social care, including Adoption and Fostering
- Promote sufficient, high quality and sustainable education and children’s social care provider market
- Children’s Safeguarding
- To promote children’s literacy
- Education Access and Inclusion and Disability
- Schools Capital Investment Programme
- School Intervention, Improvement, Learning and Professional Standards
- Youth Justice
- Children’s Early Help and Family Support
- Vulnerable Children Engagement, Advocacy and Complaints
- Social Work Professional Standards (Children)
- Leisure, Outdoor Activities and Sports, Positive Activities for Youth, Libraries
- Lifelong learning, skills and employability
b) Additional specific delegated decision making powers to:
- Approval of the Schools and Early Years Funding Formula
- Approval of the Local Admissions arrangements for Maintained Schools
- Appointment of local authority governors
- Appointment of Education Appeals panel members
- Approval of the Statement of Purpose for Ofsted regulated provision
- Receive the Annual Statutory Complaints report