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News and Comment July 2022

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3 July - School report

Caroline NewtonCouncillor Caroline Newton’s Children’s Services and Education Overview and Scrutiny Committee may have been a less tedious listen than Chris Taylor’s Adults’ Services meeting held a day earlier, but if so it was a close run thing.

Apart from the formalities there was only one item on the Agenda and Mr. Stephen Kitchman (Director of Children’s Services) and his team illustrated their report with slide presentations which may be seen here and Part 2 here.

There were no particular highlights to report, Bexley Council claimed to have better practices than other boroughs and emphasised the importance of nurturing and retaining good staff with Covid inevitably blamed for its negative impact on some children in care. Currently only 80% of Bexley Social Workers are on the permanent payroll which is less good than has been the case in the recent past.

Some isolated statistics relating to education were 83 schools in Bexley (59 Primary, eleven Secondary plus four Grammar, one “All-Through”, seven “Specials” and one Pupil Referral Unit) with a total of 44,000 pupils. They employ 4,931 professional staff and 200 child minders.

51 pupils are permanently excluded from Bexley schools which is a figure that is slowly reducing.

 

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