Executive post

Executive Portfolio:

Executive Member for Communities and Education

Portfolio Holder:

Councillor Mieka Smiles

Lead Officer:

Director of Children’s Services/Director of Education, Prevention and Partnerships/ Director of Regeneration and Culture/Director of Environment and Community Services

SCOPE OF PORTFOLIO

The Executive Member for Communities and Education has responsibility to ensure that all children are provided with the opportunity to realise their educational attainment potential.

The Executive Member will also oversee the provision of educational statutory services to address the needs of all children and young people and adults who are in need of services (including youth justice).

Quality education is the key to good life chances for all. The Executive Member is responsible for the following:

·         Access to Education

·         Achievement

·         Vulnerable leaners and SEN

·         School Readiness (including Children’s Centres)

·         Work Readiness

·         School partnerships

·         Adult and Community Learning

·         Youth Offending

Policy Framework – Education

·         National Curriculum

·         Assessment & Accountability Framework 2020/21

·         Children & Families Act 2014 – SEND Reforms

·         Ofsted Framework

·         School Finance Regulations 2013

·         Education Act 2011

·         Academies Act 2010

·         Education and Skills Act 2008

·         Education and Inspection Act 2006

·         Children Act 2004(relevant to portfolio)

·         Education Act 2002

·         Crime and Disorder Act 1998

·         School Standards & Framework Act 1998 as amended

·         Education Act 1996 as amended

·         Statutory Framework for Early Years Foundation Stage

·         Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

·         Early Years Foundation Statutory framework

·         Crime and Disorder Act 1998

Other Plans and Strategies - Education

·         Children and Young People’s Plan

·         Education and Priorities Strategy

·         School Effectiveness Strategy

·         14-25 Strategy

·         Vulnerable Learners Strategy

·         Children’s Services Improvement Plan

·         Capital Strategy & Asset Management Plan (Schools)

·         Scheme for Financing Schools

·         Adult Learning Plan

·         Youth Employment Strategy

·         Special Educational Needs and Disability Reforms

·         School Improvement Strategy

·         Healthy Child Programme (5 – 19) (including School Nursing service)

·         School Improvement Strategy

·         Youth Justice Plan

·         SEND Strategy

·         Inclusion Strategy

Service Functions – Education

·         Advisory Service

·         Special Educational Needs & Pupil Support

·         Parent Partnership/Choice Advice

·         Cleveland Unit nursery and child assessment centre

·         Reduce first time entrants to criminal justice system (young people)

·         Reduce reoffending (young people)

·         Education Psychology

·         Peripatetic Sensory Impairment Service (lead for joint arrangement)

·         Pupil Referral Units

·         Home & Hospital Education Service

·         Virtual School for Looked After Children

·         Ethnic Minority Achievement Service

·         Traveller Education Service (lead for joint arrangement)

·         Attendance & Child Employment Licensing

·         School Admissions

·         Governor Development Service

·         School Business Relationship Management

·         School Place Planning/School Organisation

·         Capital Programme management (Schools)

·         Middlesbrough Achievement Partnership support

·         Community Learning and Employability

·         Promote educational excellence for all children and young people

·         Tackle underperformance

·         Education of vulnerable children

·         Special educational needs

·         Strategic School place planning

·         Liaison with education partners

·         Skills Development

·         School organisation

·         Place planning

·         Admissions

·         Attendance

·         Attainment

·         SEN

·         Cleveland Unit

·         Sensory impairment

·         Complimentary Education

• Adult and community learning

The Executive Member for Communities and Education also has responsibility for strengthening the town’s cultural sector and creating safer communities, in accordance with the Mayor’s Priorities. The Executive Member for Communities and Education will also have responsibility for:

·         Services to support vulnerable people

·         Community Safety and Community Development

·         Empowering communities and individuals to access opportunities

·         Supporting people into employment

·         Cultural Strategy

·         Migration and Asylum Seekers

·         Welfare Rights

·         Corporate Equality and Diversity Policy

Policy Framework – Communities

·         Voluntary Sector

·         Strategic Approach to Addressing Poverty

·         Community Safety including Law and Order Issues

·         Community Development

·         Community Hub Development

·         Civil Contingencies Act 2004

·         Crime and Policing Act 2014

·         Human Rights Act

·         Cultural Strategy

Service Functions – Communities

·         Myplace

·         Community Hubs

·         Libraries and Archives

·         Community Safety

·         Street Wardens

·         Neighbourhood Safety

·         Migration and Asylum Seekers

·         Volunteering

·         Welfare Reform

·         Diversity (including Asylum Seekers / Refugees and Community Cohesion)

·         Neighbourhood Working

·         Events Management

·         Town Hall and Theatre

·         Museums

In circumstances where it is considered that an Executive Member would have a prejudicial interest the matter will be referred to the Deputy Mayor.