The Education, Children and
Families Policy Committee comprises 9 Members. The following functions are within the remit of
Education, Children and Families Policy Committee:
·
Education, including
o
Schools (including sufficiency of school
places)
o
Mainstream and specialist education (early years,
children and young people)
o
Special Educational Needs and
Disabilities
o
Learning and Skills policy, programmes and
interventions (children and young people)
·
Children and Families
o
Children and family support and social
work
o
Fostering and adoption
o
Children in care, care leavers and corporate
parenting
o
Residential services
o
Youth justice
o
Children’s wellbeing
o
Child safeguarding
o
Early childhood services
Attending Meetings
Meetings of the Policy
Committee have to be held as physical meetings and are open to the
public. Meetings are normally held at Sheffield
Town Hall and are webcast.
If you would like to attend the meeting, please
report to an Attendant in the Foyer at the Town Hall where you will
be directed to the meeting room. However, it would be
appreciated if you could register to attend, in advance of the
meeting, by emailing committee@sheffield.gov.uk, as
this will assist with the management of attendance at the
meeting.
Please do not attend the meeting if you have COVID-19
symptoms. It is also recommended that you undertake a Covid-19
Rapid Lateral Flow Test within two days of the
meeting. To aid safe access and protect all attendees,
you are welcome to wear a face covering within the
venue.
PLEASE NOTE: The Public Gallery in the Town
Hall Council Chamber can accommodate 50 persons. Social
distancing may not be possible in the Gallery depending on the
numbers of members of the public in attendance at the
meeting. An overspill area will be provided in the event
that more than 50 members of the public attend - the webcast of the
meeting will be live streamed to that room.
We are unable to guarantee entrance to the Public
Gallery for observers, as priority will be given to registered
speakers and those that have registered to
attend.
Alternatively, you can observe the meeting remotely
by clicking on the ‘view the webcast’ link provided on
the meeting
page of the website.
Public Questions and
Petitions
The arrangements for dealing with
questions and petitions at Policy Committee meetings are as
follows:
If you wish to attend a meeting and
ask a question or present a petition, you must submit the
question/petition in writing by 9.00 a.m. at least 2 clear working
days in advance of the date of the meeting, by email to
the following address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk.
You will also be asked to provide a
contact email and/or telephone number. (Details of how we will
use and keep your information can be
found here).
The Chair of the meeting has
discretion as to how questions and petitions are presented at the
meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask your question or
present a petition at the meeting, or they are read out at the
meeting. A response to the question or petition will be given by
the Chair or Council officer. If you are not able to
attend the meeting, your question/petition may be referred to the
Chair, and a written answer/response will be provided to
you.
Where a submitted question or
petition cannot be answered because time does not allow, or where a
Member undertakes to provide a written answer/response, the written
answer/response will be provided to you within ten working days of the
meeting and will be published on the
Council website.
Please note that the Chair of the
meeting may not accept petitions or questions which
relate to:
·
matters not being within the responsibility of the
Local Authority or which affects the City or
its inhabitants;
·
judicial or
quasi-judicial matters;
·
individual planning/licence/grant applications
or appeals;
·
named officers or Members of
the Council;
·
confidential matters of the type referred to in
Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972;
or
·
matters of an irrelevant, repetitious,
defamatory, frivolous or offensive nature or a general
misuse of the opportunity.
Recording of
Meetings
Recording is allowed at Policy
Committee meetings under the direction of the Chair of the meeting.
The protocol
on audio/visual recording and photography provides further
information.
Please note that meetings will be
filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s
website. See the Council’s Webcasting
Notice for more
details.