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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Virtual Meeting

Contact: Neil Barnett  Scrutiny Adviser

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No. Item

1.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

None.

2.

Public Services Board Well-being Plan 2020-21 Q2 Performance pdf icon PDF 154 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Attendees:

-     Steve Ward – PSB Intervention Lead for The Newport Offer (Newport Live)

-     William Beer – PSB Intervention Lead for Strong Resilient Communities (NHS Public Health Team Consultant)

-     Beverley Owen – Covering for the PSB Intervention Lead for Sustainable Travel (Chief Executive of Newport City Council)

-     Steve Morgan – PSB Intervention Lead for Green and Safe Spaces (Natural Resource Wales)

-     Nicola Dance – Covering for PSB Intervention Lead for Right Skills (Senior Policy and Partnership Officer)

-     Harriet Bleach - Natural Resource Wales

-     Tracy McKim – Policy Partnership & Involvement Manager

 

 

The Public Health Team consultant gave an overview of the Public Services Board (PSB), explain that their role is to ensure that the One Newport partnership acts consistently with 5 key ways of working: long term, prevention, integration, collaboration and involvement. It was explained as important to analyse whether we are on track to meet our wellbeing objectives, and there are a number of indicators to test this, which will be outlined in the various presentations.

 

The consultant then introduced various representatives for the different interventions being presented.

 

The Newport Offer

The key aspects of the Newport Offer were outlined by a representative from Newport Live, including the Place-making charter and Purple Flag status (which has now been achieved). It was acknowledged that the pandemic has had a serious impact on the Newport Offer, due to the reduction in the night time economy and tourism. Going forwards, community wealth building, to ensure that long term economic growth stays within Gwent, as well as a focus on the city as destination will be essential key aims. Supporting Carbon reduction, as seen in the renewable energy instalment in the Velodrome is another key aim. Finally, supporting tourism and the rural economy are all part of future plans.

 

The Newport Offer is an all-encompassing approach. The question now is how do we re-focus and take this forward? There is a need to develop new key performance measures, and we must ensure we engage with the wider sector when doing this. The central aim is to ensure that the Newport Offer is appealing for education, employment and tourism, to demonstrate that Newport is a great place and a world class destination. Engagement of Newport Youth Council has been excellent during Covid-19. They will review Newport Offer to ensure they are part of this development going forwards. (It was explained that the Leader brought forward this action).

 

Now, we want to demonstrate that the council and PSB is reaching out to service users and citizens. It will be important to make progress by working together. There will be a review of this to ensure that the Newport Offer is relevant to everyone in the city.

 

Members asked the following:

 

·         A member asked whether the scorecards could reflect which way the KPIs are trending. I.e. if something is rated as green, it is possible that it could be trending down so could be at risk. This was acknowledged by the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.

3.

Education Achievement Service (EAS) Business Plan 2021 - 2022 pdf icon PDF 124 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Invitees:

Ed Pryce - Education Achievement Service (EAS) Assistant Director:

Policy and Strategy

Sarah Davies - Principal Challenge Advisor (EAS)

Hayley Davies-Edwards – Principal Challenge Advisor (EAS)

Sarah Morgan - Chief Education Officer

 

The Chief Education Officer introduced the EAS team and their report. EAS represents the 5 counties in South Wales to provide a high level of support for our schools and learners. The business plan will be presented. This has been developed to address Newport specific issues, particularly with Covid-19 in mind.

 

The Assistant Director of EAS presented the EAS report. Emphasised that this is about partnership, as the EAS work in close partnership with all 5 LAs. The key element of this plan is learning lessons from the pandemic and moving forwards with hope. The language of closing gaps and learning deficits is not the language school leaders are using.

 

This plan has been made to support the LA statutory function. This plan is designed to be flexible to meet the needs of specific schools. We must consider how schools will emerge strengthened from the pandemic; there is a need to build on what has worked well, particularly the virtual environment. The balance between challenge and support must be right, as it is critical to remain sensitive to the needs of the schools.

 

The Assistant Director of EAS highlighted the change of data gathering this year- there is not data from external exams this year. It will therefore be important to focus on the people aspect of performance, and the specific needs of pupils and schools. School development plans are an essential part of this.

 

The strategic priorities in this plan are about a commitment to partnership working. They are focussed on the learning experience and quality of teaching and learning across schools. Additionally, there is a focus on essential skills such as English, Maths, and social skills. We want to consider how we can best address the needs of learners- not by addressing them as whole groups but individuals. It is necessary to address the impact of physical and mental health problems during Covid-19. Additionally, we are looking at a new curriculum design.

 

Wellbeing priorities are also a key element of this. We are continuing to focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable learners. Coaching and mentoring programmes are to be implemented on a regional and national basis. Want to value a range of characteristics which is broader than end of key stage outcomes.

 

There are still uncertain financial grant projections. Whilst nothing significantly awry is being predicted, we are 3 months later with final grant projection than usual. EAS are due to hear from Welsh Government next week to confirm to schools the figures. There remains uncertainty surrounding the pandemic but the EAS are aiming to mitigate this risk as much as possible. There has been a managed reduction of EAS staff profile over time, which reflects that there are more staff within schools funded by EAS than before.

 

Members asked the following:

 

·         Members thanked  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.