Children & Families
(a) The functions and areas of policy and decision making responsibility to the extent that they are not non-executive 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 including housing for Care leavers and homeless prevention for young people.
- 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
- Schools capital investment
- Children’s Safeguarding
- To promote children’s literacy
- Strategic Lead for Public Transport
- Education Access and Inclusion and Disability
- 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)
(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