24 September 2024

There will be a Meeting of the Committee in the Council Offices, Stornoway, on Tuesday, 24 September 2024 at 10.00am.

Date Published:  2 September 2024

Agenda

*It is recommended that, under the terms of Section 50A(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the public, including the press, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following Items on the grounds that exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act would be disclosed:

Item 4 - Paragraph 5 - Information relating to the adoption, care, fostering or education of any particular child or relating to the supervision or residence of any particular child in accordance with a supervision requirement made in respect of that child under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.

Item 5 - Paragraph 6 - Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (other than the Comhairle).

Minutes

1. Minute of Meeting of 18 June 2024
2. Declaration of Interest

Performance Management

3. Local Government Benchmarking Framework (LGBF) 2022-23

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

Children's Services

4. Residential Placements for Children and Young People

(Report by Chief Officer, Children’s Services/Chief Social Work Officer)

5. Review of Residential Care Provision 

(Report by Chief Officer, Children’s Services/Chief Social Work Officer)

6. Foster Care Fee Rates

(Report by Chief Officer, Children’s Services/Chief Social Work Officer)

7. Child Protection National Minimum Dataset 
   Appendix

(Report by Chief Officer, Children’s Services/Chief Social Work Officer)

Community Learning and Development

8. Community Learning and Development Partnership Plan 2024-27
   Appendix

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

9. Young Scot Partnership – Performance Update
   Appendix 

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

10. Volunteer Centre Western Isles Funding

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

Educational Provision

11. e-Sgoil Annual Impact Report 2023-24
    Appendix 1
    Appendix 2
    Appendix 3
    Appendix 4
    Appendix 5

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

12. Reports by Care Inspectorate of Early Learning and Childcare Provision

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

13. Report by HM Inspectors of Education: Sgoil Bhaile A’ Mhanaich June 2024
    Appendix 

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

14. Northern Alliance Learning, Teaching and Assessment Project

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

15. Attainment: Broad General Education and SQA National Qualifications 2024

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

16. Collaborative Review of Additional Support Needs Education

(Report by Chief Officer, Education and Children’s Services)

Capital Programme

17. Barra and Vatersay Community Campus

(Report by Chief Executive)

Local Negotiating Committee:  Teaching Staff

18. Minute of Meeting of 27 August 2024

Performance Monitoring

20. Reports Outstanding

(Report by Chief Executive)

NOTE:  The next scheduled meeting of the Committee will be on 26 November 2024.

Minute of Meeting of 24 September 2024