Published: Monday, 25th August, 2008 12:30pm
School review public meetings announced
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The following is a statement from Scottish Borders Council:
TRANSFORMING Children's Services (TCS) is a very significant project focused on improving the services provided to children, young people and their families.
These service are provide by two departments within the Council: Education & Lifelong Learning and Social Work Services.
The TCS project was undertaken through five separate work packages (see below) and an overview report has been produced to bring together all aspects of this very important and exciting project into one overview report.
The comprehensive Overview report provides a snapshot of current services, outlines the challenges we face and the building blocks for improvement, with proposals for changes to our services that will greatly enhance the quality of services we provide to children, young people and their families.
We would urge you to consider this report and the proposals from the project very carefully.
We are now launching a public engagement process to listen to your views on the proposals.
As part of this we are arranging public open meetings across the Borders to give parents and members of our communities the opportunity to ask questions and talk to staff from both departments on aspects of the project and its recommendations.
You can attend whichever meeting is most convenient for you. Separate meetings will also be arranged for our staff and special interest/user groups.
Meetings that will focus primary on schools and support for pupils (and their families) with additional needs are:
Eyemouth High School: 7pm - 28 August 2008
Selkirk High School: 7pm - 4 September 2008
Earlston High School: 7pm - 9 September 2008
Galashiels Academy: 7pm - 11 September 2008
Peebles High School: 7pm - 18 September 2008
Hawick High School: 7pm - 18 September 2008
Jedburgh Grammar: 7pm - 23 September 2008
Kelso High School: 7pm - 24 September 2008
Berwickshire High School: 7pm - 29 September 2008
Meetings that will focus primarily on Community Services (libraries, museums, community learning & development, arts and sports etc) will be held at - all meetings begin at 7pm
Tait Hall, Kelso: 16 September 2008
Burgh Hall, Peebles: 25 September 2008
Volunteer Hall, Galashiels 2 October 2008
Tower Mill, Hawick: 9 October 2008
Berwickshire High School: 14 October 2008
Participation in the engagement process
To participate in the engagement process, you can
* send us your views by e-mail
* download the response
* ask your Parent Council (schools) to respond on your behalf
* write a letter to the Director of Education who (as the Project's Executive) has overall responsibility for the project
Whichever route you choose to respond - please make sure you include your name, address and state whether your are a parent, pupil, staff member, teacher etc
