Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
23 Jul 2025 - 10:00 to 12:00
Scheduled
Committee Rooms 3 & 4
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Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

2 Election of Deputy Chair
To elect a Deputy Chair, for the purposes of substitution for the Chair, if absent, for the period ending with the Annual General Meeting of the City Council in 2026.
3 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
4 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

 

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

 

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

 

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

 

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

 

 

 

5 Membership of the Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
To note the resolution of the City Council meetings (20 May 2025 and 17 June 2025) appointing the Committee, Chair and Members to serve on the Committee to the period ending with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of City Council 2026.

Labour (5):
Cllr Kerry Jenkins (Chair), Cllr Akhlaq Ahmed, Cllr Esther Rai, Cllr Amar Khan, and Cllr Shehla Moledina

Conservative (2): 
Cllr Adam Higgs

Liberal Democrat (2):
Cllr Deborah Harries
Cllr Morriam Jan

Other Voting Members (4)

Church of England diocese representative (1) – Sarah Smith

Roman Catholic diocese representative (1) – Steve Bell

Parent Governor Representatives (2) – Rabia Shami and Osamugi Ogbe
6 Minutes
To confirm the minutes for the Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s meeting held on 9 April 2025 and note the notes from the workshop held on 14 May 2025.
7 Action Tracker
To review and note the actions from previous Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings.
  1. pdf Action Tracker (216Kb)
8 Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee Terms of Reference
To fulfil the functions of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee as they relate to any policies, services and activities concerning education and school improvement, children’s social care, looked after children, children’s wellbeing and safeguarding, early years, Special Educational Needs and Disability, youth services, entrepreneurship and youth offending. 

This includes: 
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship in Birmingham schools 
- Education and children’s social care
- The safety and wellbeing of children, including safeguarding with statutory partners
- The needs of all children and young people, families and carers (children’s services) 
- Oversight of the Children’s Trust
- Early years health and wellbeing
- Looked after children, corporate parenting
- Special Education Needs and Disability
- School improvement, school places and travel to and from school
- Youth engagement and youth services
- Youth offending
 
9 Request(s) for Call In/Councillor Call for Action/Petitions Received (if any)
To consider any request for call in/councillor call for action/petitions (if received). 
10 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.
11 Schedule of Committee Dates
To note the scheduled dates for 2025/26 at 10am in committee rooms 3&4 on: 17 September 2025, 15 October 2025, 10 December 2025, 21 January 2026, 4 March 2026, and 22 April 2026.
 

Attendance

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