BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LEARNING, CULTURE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY, 17 APRIL 2019 AT 13:30 HOURS IN COMMITTEE ROOMS 3 & 4, COUNCIL HOUSE, VICTORIA SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM, B1 1BB A G E N D A 1 NOTICE OF RECORDING/WEBCAST The Chairman to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Internet site (www.civico.net/birmingham) 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 that they must declare all relevant pecuniary and non pecuniary interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting. If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not speak or take part in that agenda item. Any declarations will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. 4 ACTION NOTES 3 - 6 To confirm the action notes of the meeting held on the 6 March 2019. 5 CABINET MEMBER FOR EDUCATION, SKILLS AND CULTURE 7 - 24 Cllr Jayne Francis, Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Culture, Anne Ainsworth, AD for Skills & Employability and Symon Easton, Head of Cultural Development in attendance. 6 CHILDCARE SUFFICIENCY ANNUAL REPORT 25 - 98 Lindsey Trivett, Head of Early Years, Childcare and Children’s Centres and Kevin Caulfield, Childcare Quality and Sufficiency Manager in attendance. Page 1 of 106 7 WORK PROGRAMME 99 - 106 To note. 8 DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING To agree a date and time. 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 Chairman are matters of urgency. 11 AUTHORITY TO CHAIRMAN AND OFFICERS Chairman to move:- 'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chairman jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'. Page 2 of 106 BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LEARNING, CULTURE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (O&S) COMMITTEE – PUBLIC MEETING 13:30 hours on Wednesday 6th March 2019, Committee Rooms 3 & 4 – Actions Present: Councillor Mariam Khan (Chair) Councillors: Alex Aitken (Deputy Chair), Mary Locke, Gary Sambrook, Kath Scott, Ron Storer and Martin Straker Welds. Other Voting Representatives: Rabia Shami, Parent Governor Representative and Sarah Smith, Church of England Diocese Representative Also Present: Shagufta Anwar, Senior Intelligence Officer Tim Boyes, Chief Executive, Birmingham Education Partnership (BEP) Rose Kiely, Group Overview & Scrutiny Manager Dr Tim O’Neill, Director, Education and Skills, Birmingham City Council Tracy Ruddle, Director of Continuous School Improvement, BEP Amanda Simcox, Scrutiny Officer Julie Young, AD, Education Safeguarding 1. NOTICE OF RECORDING The Chairman advised that this meeting would be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s Internet site (www.civico.net/birmingham) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there were confidential or exempt items. 2. APOLOGIES Apologies were submitted on behalf of Councillor Mike Sharpe and Adam Hardy, Roman Catholic Diocese Representative. 1 Page 3 of 106 3. DECLARATIONS OF INTERESTS Councillor Gary Sambrook declared he is now a school governor at Oscott Manor School. 4. ACTION NOTES (See document 1). RESOLVED: The action notes of the meeting held on the 6th February 2019 were confirmed. 5. SCHOOL ATTAINMENT (DETAILS DATA) AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT (See documents 2, 3 and 4). Dr Tim O’Neill, Director for Education and Skills; Julie Young, AD, Education Safeguarding; Tim Boyes, Chief Executive, BEP; Tracy Ruddle, Director of Continuous School Improvement, BEP and Shagufta Anwar, Senior Intelligence Officer presented the item and answered Members’ questions. The following were among the main points raised: • BEP has a two year contract with the Council for school improvement. • The contract is for £1.08m and BEP has brought in an additional £1.4m funding. • BEP are building a more self-sustaining system and the local authority has a critical role to play. • There are a set of outcomes in the contract and there are monthly meetings where they discuss the schools that are causing concern. • Schools do not become inadequate overnight so BEP try and work with the schools that might be vulnerable. • There is an awareness of looking outwards and BEP work quite closely with some London areas. • Primary School performance is below the national average across both attainment and progress measures (except for KS2 Math Progress). • Reading in the majority of schools is keeping the KS2 figure down. • Improvement Strategies include: • Pilot Maths Reasoning Project. • Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF) 1 bespoke. • Priority maintained schools support. • Completion of SSIF 2 reading project (this ends in July 2019 and provided £11,000 support work). • Pilot 3 reading packages based on SSIF 2. • DfE School Improvement Offer. • Families of Schools and the KS2 event and Families of Schools KS4. 2 Page 4 of 106 • An indicator as to where improvement is working can be seen in the Ofsted Inspection reports. For instance, 16 schools had a strong paragraph about the quality of reading in their reports. • 190 schools are taking part in one or more of the BEP offers. • 68 priority schools have bespoke support. • They could share information on the Families of Schools when they next attend a committee meeting. • If Members have concerns or issues regarding a particular school then they can discuss these with BEP. RESOLVED: The update was noted. 6. WORK PROGRAMME (See document 5). The Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Culture is attending the April committee meeting and members requested that they are provided with detail and measurable outcomes. The Chair agreed to provide clear expectations of the committee to the Cabinet Member. Councillor Mary Locke gave her apologies for the April committee meeting. Also, she felt that there had not been many culture items on the committee’s work programme and she is interested in the Commonwealth Games and the impact across all wards. The Chair commented that the committee has such a wide remit and this needs to be picked up when it is the right time. The Chair will follow this up with the Leader and this can be added to the work programme for the new municipal year. Members reiterated that the separation of the former committee into two committees has not really worked and this should be fed back to the leadership before the new municipal year. The Chair undertook to discuss this with the Leader. Members requested whether a meeting or session could be organised for all councillors to attend so they can see the work and literature for the No Outsiders Programme, as this is being portrayed by some as not being age appropriate. This could also include the wider Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) work. RESOLVED: The Work Programme was noted and: • The Chair to: o Provide clear expectations of the committee to the Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Culture. o Discuss the Commonwealth Games with the Leader. o Discuss the issues arising from the separation of the two O&S Committees (Learning, Culture and Physical Activity and Children’s Social Care O&S Committee) with the Leader. 3 Page 5 of 106 7. DATES OF MEETINGS The Committee noted the date of the future meeting is on 17 April 2019 at 1330 hours in the Council House, Committee Rooms 3 & 4. 8. REQUEST(S) FOR CALL IN/COUNCILLOR CALL FOR ACTION/PETITIONS None. 9. OTHER URGENT BUSINESS None. 10. AUTHORITY TO CHAIRMAN AND OFFICERS RESOLVED: That in an urgent situation between meetings the Chair, jointly with the relevant Chief Officer, has authority to act on behalf of the Committee. ______________________________________________________________________ The meeting ended at 1530 hours. 4 Page 6 of 106 Learning, Culture and Physical Activity Overview and Scrutiny Committee Councillor Jayne Francis Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Culture Page 7 of 106 Portfolio overview . Education of Children and Young People . Arts and Culture and Tourism . The Library of Birmingham and Community Libraries . Museums . Youth Engagement and Youth Service . Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Inclusion – also Children’s Social Care Committee . Skills and Entrepreneurship in Schools - Economy and Skills Committee . Employment Opportunities - Economy and Skills Committee . Skills, expansion for key growth sectors enterprise and innovation - Economy and Skills Committee . Lifelong Learning (post 14 skills and adult education) - Economy and Skills Committee Page 8 of 106 Education of Children and Young People: School Improvement . Birmingham City Council commissions Birmingham Education Partnership (BEP) to deliver school improvement . Current contract runs until the end of the 2019/20 academic year. BEP reported to this committee on school performance last month. Ward based school performance data. Page 9 of 106 Education of Children and Young People: School Admissions . Service modernisation . Applications for school places . Appeals . Fair Access Protocol Page 10 of 106 Education of Children and Young People: School Place Planning . To be responsible for securing sufficient school places to meet the needs of the population in Birmingham . Birth rates are falling . ONS data also indicates a decrease in the net migration in the year 2017 which “indicate that the EU referendum result may be influencing people’s decision to migrate into and out of the UK, particularly EU and EU8 citizens… “ (ONS, August 2017). Larger primary cohorts are now moving into secondary education so our Additional Places Programme is focussed on our secondary schools . Annual School Capacity (SCAP) return for DfE . It remains a challenge to ensure there are sufficient places and financially sustainable schools in each area of the city without creating over provision and destabilising existing schools.