Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of meetings of the Environment and Economy Select Committee held on 17 September 2024.

To interview Barnardo’s Children’s Services Manager for Stevenage, Sharon Bell MBE and Barnardo’s Communications and Data Analyst, Teresa Killworth, regarding issues for families and parents accessing childcare and attempting to enter back into employment.

To interview the Assistant Headteacher of Barnwell Secondary School, Jackie Johnson, regarding the skills agenda and how young people are accessing opportunities moving into employment, apprenticeships and further and higher education.

To interview the Youth Mayor, Lahaina Sutherland and the Deputy Youth Mayor, Frankie Duncan regarding the challenges for young people navigating exams, and accessing opportunities to moving into employment, skills training, apprenticeships and further and higher education.

To receive an update on the Members site visit to North Herts College Science Innovation and Technology Centre (SITEC) on Friday 27 September 2024.

To consider any Part 1 business accepted by the Chair as urgent.

To consider the following motions –

1.  That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2.  That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent.