Cyngor Gwynedd Care Scrutiny committee met on the 4th June, 2026. Tick box exercise... The meeting was more to vote through department's performance reports rather than proper scrutiny and many councillors did not bother to turn up for the meeting. The Strategic Safeguarding Panel Yearly Report 2025/26 was presented by Dewi Jones, cabinet member for Education and now chair of the panel. It is of concern that this panel could be used to avoid scrutiny by councillors and the pu

Cyngor Gwynedd council are advertising for a new head of the children's SS department. The job is paying £84,480 - £93,163 a year, which is a lot less than the £104,15, the former head, Marian Parry Hughes was 'earning' last year. The highest-paid council employees in Gwynedd and Anglesey https://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/25065053.highest-paid-council-employees-gwynedd-anglesey/ Hughes failed to act when concerns were raised against Neil Foden in 2019. The former he

Cyngor Gwynedd cancelled the Care Scrutiny committee that was to be held on the 20th November. The agenda pack for the meeting can be found here - https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g5651/Public%20reports%20pack%2020th-Nov-2025%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10 A Task and Finish group is being setup to examine social services complaints. Has there been an investigation? Elliw Haf Hughes, is named as the Assistant Head of Safeguarding and Quality (no

The Gwynedd Child Practice Review into paedophile headteacher Neil Foden, first due in early Spring, then late Spring, then September has...

The admission by one of cyngor Gwynedd's interim heads of the children and families department that their reporting is not 'completely...

Cyngor Gwynedd held an Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee meeting on Thursday, 19th June 2025. The webcast of the meeting can be...

The publication of the Jan Pickles review, first due in spring, then late spring has been delayed again and is now expected in...

Cyngor Gwynedd council will not (yet) release the report by the barrister, Genevieve Woods. Woods report looks at the circumstances from...

Cyngor Gwynedd council held a Care Scrutiny Committee on the 3rd April, 2025. The agenda pack can be found here -...

Ten months after the arrest of Neil Foden, parents and governors still have little confidence in cyngor Gwynedd council to stop any...