Children and Young People

Membership

9 Labour, 2 Conservative. 1 Liberal Democrat

Councillor members

Co-optee members

There are three types of Co-optee on the Children and Young People Scrutiny Commission. These are:

Co-opted organisations selected by Statute:

• Vera Edwards – Co-optee (Roman Catholic Westminster Diocesan Schools Commission - with voting rights)
• Vacancy – Co-optee (Church of England - with voting rights)
• Edith Akinnawonu - Co-optee (Parent Governor Representative - with voting rights)
• Saleh Ahmed - Co-optee (Parent Govenor Representative - with voting rights)

Co-opted organisations selected by Hackney Council:

• Ralph Bergmann – Co-optee (Avigdor School/Orthodox Jewish Community - with voting rights)
• Mary Ludlow – Co-optee (Free Church Federal Council - non-voting member)
• Mohamed Zeena – Co-optee (North London Muslim Association - non-voting member)

Co-opted organisations selected by the Children and Young People Scrutiny Commission

• Lisa Neidich – Co-optee (Hackney School Governors Association – non-voting member)

The Children and Young People Scrutiny Commission’s remit includes scrutinising the work of the Children and Young People’s Services Directorate and working closely with the Learning Trust, a not for profit organisation, which has a contract with the Council to provide Education services until 2012.

Scrutiny Commissions dealing with education matters are required by the Local Government Act 2000 to have a minimum of four external voting representatives. These are made up of one Church of England representative, one Roman Catholic Church representative, and two parent-governor representatives.

OSB and the Commissions have recently undergone a rationale of their remits:

New remit	Links to Council Directorates / Divisions	Links to Team Hackney	What has Changed?
Children Services Children and Young People’s Social Care Education and the Learning Trust	Children’s Services	Children and Young People Partnership Board	Remit was: Learning Trust, Education and Lifelong Learning ‘Whole-child’ approach, as championed in Every Child Matters

Commission Reports

Please see the Commission Reports page to view reports for this Commission.

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Page updated: 27 Feb 2009