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 and Skills
o
Schools
o
Mainstream and specialist education (early years,
children and young people)
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
Child safeguarding
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.
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 NOTE: The meeting rooms in the Town
Hall have a limited capacity. We are unable to guarantee entrance
to the meeting room 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 meetings 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 days in
advance of the date of the meeting, by email to the following
address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk
E.g.
For meetings held on a Wednesday, questions/petitions will need to
be received by 9.00 a.m. on the Monday of that week.
Questions/petitions submitted after the deadline will be asked at
the meeting subject to the discretion of the Chair. 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.
