Agenda

Meeting

Children and Families Overview and Scrutiny Committee

To:

Councillors Barbara Brodigan (Chair), Caroline Goodrick (Vice-Chair), Alyson Baker, Stephanie Duckett, Nathan Hull, David Jeffels, Janet Jefferson, Tom Jones, Cliff Lunn, John Mann, Andy Paraskos, Yvonne Peacock, Kirsty Poskitt, John Ritchie, Monika Slater, Andrew Timothy and Co-Optees Tom Cavell-Taylor, Stephen Jennings, Martin Macaulay, Yvonne Methley, Gary McVeigh-Kaye, David Sharp and David Watson.

Date:

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Time:

10.00 am

Venue:

The Grand - County Hall

 

Business

 

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1.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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2.  

Minutes of the Meeting held on 17 September 2025

 

(Pages 5 - 16)

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3.  

Declarations of interest

 

 

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4.  

North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NYSCP) Annual Report 2024-2025

(Pages 17 - 94)

 

An update from the Chair of NYSCP and Independent Scrutineer.

 

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5.  

Public questions/statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Alice Fox of Democratic and Scrutiny Services (contact details below) and supplied the text of the question/statement by midday on Friday 12 December, three working days before the day of the meeting.  Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.  Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak:-

·            at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes);

·            when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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6.  

Chair's remarks

 

 

Any correspondence, communication or other business brought forward by the direction of the Chair of the Committee. 

 

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7.  

Progress on issues raised by the Committee

(Pages 95 - 112)

 

A report from the Senior Scrutiny Officer.

 

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8.  

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Notice of Motion

 

(Pages 113 - 118)

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9.  

Approach to, and use of, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Children's Services

(Pages 119 - 126)

 

A report from the Group Manager for Leaving Care and the Transformation and Innovation Manager.

 

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10.  

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Update

(Pages 127 - 134)

 

Annual update from the Head of SEND Strategic Planning and Resource.

 

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11.  

Child Death Overview Panel Annual Report

(Pages 135 - 150)

 

Report to note.

 

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12.  

Work programme

(Pages 151 - 154)

 

Report of the Scrutiny Senior Officer

 

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13.  

Any other items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances

 

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14.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Wednesday 25 March 2026 at 10am.

 

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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports

 

 

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Contact details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda please contact Alice Fox, Senior Scrutiny Officer. Tel: 01756 706226 or email alice.fox@northyorks.gov.uk

 

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk  

 

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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. You may be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public. Please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Senior Scrutiny Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.

 

 

Contact Details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:

Name: Alice Fox, Senior Scrutiny Officer

E-mail: alice.fox@northyorks.gov.uk

E-mail: democraticservices.central.gov.uk

Tel: 01756 706226

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

Legal and Democratic Services

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

 

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