Bernie Muir

Health and Wellbeing Board - Wednesday, 18 September 2024 10.00 am

The meeting resulted in a number of decisions, with the board agreeing to review the responsibility for strategic oversight of community safety and consider making it a separate arrangement. The board also agreed to endorse a poverty pledge, confirm and endorse the four areas for development from the February 2024 Health and Well-being Board Better Care Fund event, and endorse the further development of the Library of Experiences method.

Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture Select Committee - Thursday, 12 September 2024 10.00 am

Surrey Council's Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture Select Committee met to discuss a report from the Additional Needs and Disabilities: Parent/Carer Experience Task Group. The Committee unanimously endorsed the recommendations in the report. Following this the Committee received an update on the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Recovery Plan and the findings of the End-to-End Review of the EHCP statutory process. The Committee endorsed the recommendations in this report. The Committee then discussed a report on Children Not in School, reviewed and noted an Ofsted report on a Surrey County Council-run Children’s Home, and received a Performance Overview for the service.

Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture Select Committee - Tuesday, 30 July 2024 10.00 am

The Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture Select Committee discussed the responses it received to its recommendations to the Cabinet on funding allocation and the SEND Capital Programme, as well as receiving updates on the Home to School Travel Assistance Programme and Corporate Parenting.

Council - Tuesday, 9 July 2024 10.00 am

Surrey Council met to discuss, among other business, their relationship with the newly elected national government, the provision of special educational needs support, and performance issues with the Council’s highways contractor, Ringway Infrastructure Services. The Council voted, without dissent, to approve the content of the Cabinet meeting on 25 June 2024, the minutes of the meeting on 21 May 2024, and the Scrutiny Annual Report 2023-24. They also approved a plan to update the Member Development Strategy.

Health and Wellbeing Board - Wednesday, 19 June 2024 2.00 pm

The Board approved the 2024/25 update to the 2023-25 Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan[^2], noted the 2023/24 BCF Return and noted the update following the BCF Strategy Workshop held in February 2024. They also agreed that the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) and the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Partnership (SHICP) would in future operate with one streamlined membership, with agendas designed so that they run concurrently in one meeting.