Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
22 Jul 2026 - 16:00
Scheduled
Committee Room 6
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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 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 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.

 

 

 

4 Membership of the Education, Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
To note the resolution of the City Council meeting on 19 May 2026 and subsequent formal notification of the Monitoring Officer appointing the Committee, Chair and Members to serve on the Committee to the period ending with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of City Council 2027:

Reform: Cllr Gemma Guttridge & Cllr Rachel Conaghan
Green: Cllr Corinne Fowler & Cllr Duncan Ali
Labour: Cllr Narinder Kooner
Conservative: Cllr Matt Bennett (Chair)
Lib Dem: Cllr Morriam Jan
Birmingham Independent Workers Group (BIWG): Cllr Mansuur Ahmed
 

* Other Voting Members (4)
Church of England diocese representative (1) – Sarah Smith
Roman Catholic diocese representative (1) – Steve Bell
Parent Governor Representatives (2) - vacant

* Education Act 1996 s.499(6) + subsequent regulations and provisions applied to scrutiny committees require committees dealing with education functions to appoint certain co-opted members who have voting rights on education matters.
5 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 2027.
6 Minutes
To confirm the minutes of the Education, Children and Young People O&S Committee meeting on 4 March 2026.
7 Scrutiny Overview and Priorities for Children and Families Directorate
Cllr Kamel Hawwash, Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families, James Thomas, Chief Executive of Birmingham Children’s Trust, Stuart Lackenby, Interim Executive Director of Children and Families Directorate, Razia Butt, Director of Thriving Children and Families, Helen Ellis, Director of Early Years, SEND and Inclusion, Adrian Weissenbruch, Director of Children’s Commissioning and Performance, and Martin Fitzwilliam, Interim Director of Schools and Employability in attendance.
8 Work Programme
To agree the work programme.
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 Meeting Dates
To note the scheduled dates for 2026/27 at 1600 hours on: 
• 30 September 2026 – CR3&4
• 18 November 2026 - CR3&4
• 16 December 2026 - CR3&4
• 13 January 2027 - CR3&4
• 17 February 2027 - CR3&4
• 21 April 2027 - CR3&4
 

Attendance

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