Agenda

To receive apologies for inability to attend the meeting (if any).

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 15 May 2025.

To receive an update on recommendations and actions following the previous Committee meeting.

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Purpose: To consider any petitions requiring an Officer response.

Purpose: This report is to share the feedback, findings and recommendation from a recent LGA Peer Review in Children’s Services.

Purpose: To inform Members about the Castle Gate Short Break Service and the outcome of its most recent Ofsted inspection, conducted on 18–19 March 2025, in which the service received an 'Outstanding' rating.

Purpose: To present the findings of the recent Ofsted and CQC thematic review of children with SEND, of compulsory school age, who are not registered pupils at a registered independent school or any type of state-funded school.

Purpose: to present the outcomes of the Delivering Better Value in SEND programme and the innovation in SEND Delivery Plan.

Purpose: To share Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) recommendations of their recent investigation (LGSCO 23018177) and the action plan developed by West Berkshire Council to address the recommendations.

Purpose: To advise the Committee of items to be considered by West Berkshire Council’s Executive from May to August 2025 and for Members to decide whether to review any of the proposed items prior to the meeting indicated in the Plan.

Purpose: To receive new items and agree and prioritise the work programme of the Committee.

RECOMMENDATION: That members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information of the description contained in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 specified in brackets in the heading of each item. Section 10 of Part 10 of the Constitution refers.

(Paragraph 1 - Information relating to an individual.)

(Paragraph 2 – Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.)

Purpose: To share Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) recommendations of their recent investigation (LGSCO 23018177) and the action plan developed by West Berkshire Council to address the recommendations.