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ELECT CHAIR To elect
Chair for 2025-2026. Additional documents: Decision: To elect
Councillor Cai Larsen as Chair for 2025/26. |
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VICE-CHAIR To elect
Vice-chair for 2025-2026. Additional documents: Decision: To elect
Councillor Rhys Tudur as Vice-Chair for 2025/26. |
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APOLOGIES To receive any apologies for absence. Additional documents: |
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DECLARATION OF PERSONAL INTEREST To receive any declarations of personal interest. Additional documents: |
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URGENT BUSINESS To note any items that are a matter of urgency in the view of the Chair
for consideration. Additional documents: |
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The Chair shall propose that the minutes of the previous
meeting of this committee held on 10 April 2025 be signed as a true record. Additional documents: |
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DRAFT EDUCATION LANGUAGE POLICY TASK AND FINISH GROUP To submit the recommendations of the Task and Finish Group in relation to the wording of the draft policy. Additional documents:
Decision: • To note the output of the work of the Task
and Finish Group but there was no consensus on all the recommended
modifications; • To ask the Cabinet Member for Education to consider the range of comments submitted by the Scrutiny Members when drawing up the final policy. |
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CABINET MEMBER FOR EDUCATION PERFORMANCE REPORT To report
to the Scrutiny Committee on the performance of the Education Department. A
lunch break is planned for 12.30pm – 1.30pm Additional documents:
Decision: To accept the report and note the comments and to
request further action on some of the comments in relation to the following
areas: · Welsh Language
and Language Centres · Learning environment
for children with specific conditions · Type of
buildings in terms of geographical locations plus transport costs · Child absences and inclusion along with
children excluded from education and who are homeschooled · Data
reliability where the database is small · Costs relating to access to education
specifically for low-income families and children excluded from school · Appointment of
Headteachers · Timeliness in
the delivery of the Education Strategy. |
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CABINET MEMBER FOR ECONOMY PERFORMANCE REPORT To report
to the Scrutiny Committee on the performance of the Economy Department. Additional documents:
Decision: · To accept the
report and note the comments; · That
consideration needs to be given to scrutiny of the benefit of the Growth Deal
for Gwynedd including the alternative project in Trawsfynydd · To ask the Economy
and Community Department to provide three-year rolling data on numbers who have
received return to work support · To ask the
Department to make a request to Byw'n Iach Company for user data;
To request that
the department seeks funding and wider support for the Caernarfon Food Festival
and to show
more clearly in the report that there is funding for social enterprises. |
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CABINET MEMBER FOR FINANCE PERFORMANCE REPORT To report
to the Scrutiny Committee on the performance of the Finance Department. Additional documents:
Decision: • To accept the report and to note the
observations. • To accept that a Council Tax Premium
Exemption Policy needs to be drawn up • That consideration needs to be given
to whether there is a role for the Scrutiny Committee in the creation of the
policy • To ask the Finance Department to
share data in relation to Council Tax prosecutions with members. |
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CORPORATE AND LEGAL SERVICES AND THE WELSH LANGUAGE CABINET MEMBER PERFORMANCE REPORT To report
to the Scrutiny Committee on the performance of the Corporate and Legal
Services Departments. Additional documents:
Decision: · To accept the
report and to note the observations. · To welcome that
a detailed work programme is being drawn up to address the recommendations of
the Information Commissioner's Office following an audit of the Council's
arrangements in relation to freedom of information requests
· That the
Committee receive an update on the Customer Care Plan as it develops · That Heads of Department need to be
encouraged to respond to the annual questionnaire from the Legal Service · To request that the Scrutiny Committee
receive information about prosecutions relating to pupil absences. |