Author: Su Turner
Education accountability – time for a new role for council scrutiny?
Su Turner, CfGS’s Director of Children and Young People, considers whether there should be an enhanced role for councils in the future of education scrutiny. Blink and September has gone! Four weeks into the new school year, and children are settling down to their new routines: understanding what is expected of them, knowing that they must […]
Migrant Looked After Children: Scrutiny’s role
As you will have read in my last blog, being a corporate parent is a really important role that all councillors have – ensuring that children in their care are looked after and achieve. With the Government’s recent announcement to support a further 3,000 ‘at risk’ child refugees, Tom Redfearn at the Children’s Society explores […]
Are you curious about Corporate Parenting?
Children in the care of a local authority are one of the most vulnerable groups in society. And when services fail a child the results are far reaching and as we have often seen can be the subject of extensive media coverage. Did you know that at any one time around 68,000 children are […]
Our response to the Education Select Committee’s concerns on Regional Schools Commissioners
On the release of the Education Committee’s report on Regional Schools Commissioners, Su Turner, Director of Children and Young People at the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny said: “The drive for academies and free schools has not been accompanied by sufficient consideration of how schools should be scrutinised leading to an accountability deficit. At best […]
What should the relationship be between schools and councillors?
Schools are at the heart of our communities yet the distance between the head teacher’s office and the town hall seems further apart than ever. How well do ward councillors really know the schools in their patch? I have been asking this question over the last eighteen months and more often than not the […]