The Lancashire County Council Children, Families and Skills Scrutiny Committee approved recommendations regarding academisation and commercialisation on 01/11/2023. They also approved recommendations concerning the Education Strategy Annual Report 2023, including providing updates on home education, persistent absence, permanent exclusions, secondary school admissions, behaviour consultant costs, and a service structure chart. Additionally, the committee endorsed recommendations from the School Place Planning Inquiry Day, which included work on school place planning, consideration of inaccurate forecasting, ameliorating destabilisation of schools, reinstating the Safer Travel Unit, working with district planning authorities, reviewing school transport procurement for environmental issues, assessing safest routes for home to school transport, improving collaboration between transport and place planning teams, and reviewing school transport with the Public Transport Team to increase greener options and bus use. The committee also noted their Work Programme 2023/24.