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Children and Young People Select Committee - Tuesday, 3 March 2026 - 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met to discuss tackling race inequality in schools, the council's approach to kinship and foster care, and to review the administration's work programme. Key decisions included noting the progress made in addre...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 8th January, 2026 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met to discuss the Corporate Parenting Strategy and improving economic opportunities for young people. Key decisions included approving recommendations for an all-member briefing on corporate parenting and form...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 6th November, 2025 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met to discuss the implementation of a new strategic youth offer, consider a report on elective home education, and review the committee's work programme. The committee approved recommendations for the youth of...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Wednesday, 17th September, 2025 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met on 17 September to discuss early intervention and family support, data monitoring, and the committee's work programme. Councillors noted reports on the early intervention and family support services, and on...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Tuesday, 10th June, 2025 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee were scheduled to discuss budget savings, the findings of a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) investigation, and a recent Ofsted focused visit, as well as agreeing their work programme for the ...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Tuesday, 1st April, 2025 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met to discuss school standards, race inequalities in education, and elective home education. Councillors were also scheduled to review the committee's work programme.
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 23rd January, 2025 7.00 pm
This meeting was a broad overview of Children and Young People services in Lewisham. It considered reports on the performance of services for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), the performance of children's social care and ...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 21st November, 2024 7.00 pm
The agenda for this meeting was for the committee to note a number of reports on the performance of the council's Children and Young People’s Services, as well as for them to consider the council's proposed budget reductions.
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 12th September, 2024 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee was scheduled to discuss several reports, including a preliminary response to a task and finish group that had reviewed youth services in the borough, the emotional wellbeing and mental health of the borough's ...
Children and Young People Select Committee - Thursday, 18th July, 2024 7.00 pm
The Children and Young People Select Committee met on Thursday, 18 July 2024, to discuss the integration of Children and Family Centres into Family Hubs and the progress of the Pathfinder programme. The committee resolved to recommend that decisions regardi...
The Children and Young People Select Committee looks at issues relating to children and young people, principally:
· schools and related services (including early years, alternative provision, post-16)
· children’s social services
· Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision for children and young people up to age 25
· youth services
· transition for care leavers. The Committee holds decision-makers to account, challenges budgetary and policy decisions and influences policy-making by making recommendations. The Committee chooses the issues it wants to focus on each year and holds five public meetings. The agenda and papers for each are published online in advance.
