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Members will be aware that, following Estyn’s inspection of Monmouthshire local authority education services for children and young people in November 2012, the inspection team judged that the authority’s education services and capacity to improve were both unsatisfactory. As a result, the authority was placed in special measures.


In June 2013 I put in place a Ministerial Recovery Board to provide support and challenge to the authority and to assist it in addressing its shortcomings.


Estyn has been monitoring the authority’s progress and undertook visits in February and June 2014 and March 2015\. On each occasion the Inspectors found that the LA had taken steps to address the individual recommendations, but that further improvement was needed.


Estyn’s last monitoring visit of the authority’s education services took place at the end of November 2015 and I wish to draw your attention to the outcome of that visit.


I am pleased to say that following the visit, Estyn judged that the authority had made sufficient progress in relation to the recommendations following the inspection of November 2012\.  As a result, the Inspectorate considers that the authority no longer requires special measures and is removing it from further follow\-up activity.


Estyn’s report of the outcome of the monitoring visit has been published on its website.


I have met with Monmouthshire’s leader and chief executive to offer my congratulations on the progress that the LA has achieved and the judgment given by inspectors. As the authority has been removed from special measures I will be revoking the Direction that was issued putting in place a Ministerial recovery board to provide support and challenge as the authority addressed the recommendations made by Estyn.


While this judgment importantly reflects the progress made by the authority, it also critically reflects that outcomes for young people in Monmouthshire are improving.  We must continue to focus on these outcomes and ensure that standards in education in the authority continue to improve.


Whilst Estyn’s announcement is pleasing, I have urged the leadership team of the authority not to become complacent and to ensure that the improvement continues and is sustainable.  I have urged them to consider the best mechanism which would enable this to happen.


Through my discussions with the authority I am pleased to note that this issue is firmly within the leadership team’s minds and that they are actively considering how the progress made can be continued. My officials, in collaboration with the authority, are giving some thought to the most appropriate support structures that would allow the authority to achieve this.


 


 







Translation:


 
Aelodau, byddwch yn ymwybodol, ar ôl i Estyn arolygu gwasanaethau addysg awdurdod lleol Sir Fynwy ar gyfer plant a phobl ifanc ym mis Tachwedd 2012, fod y tîm arolygu wedi dyfarnu bod gwasanaethau addysg yr awdurdod a’u capasiti i wella yn anfoddhaol. Rhoddwyd yr awdurdod, felly, o dan fesurau arbennig. 

Ym mis Mehefin 2013, sefydlais Fwrdd Adfer Gweinidogol, er mwyn cynnig cymorth a her i’r awdurdod a’i helpu i ddelio â’i ddiffygion.

Mae Estyn wedi bod yn monitro cynnydd yr awdurdod ac ymwelodd â’r awdurdod ym mis Chwefror 2014 a mis Mawrth 2015\. Ar y ddau achlysur, gwelodd yr Arolygwyr bod yr awdurdod lleol wedi cymryd camau i fynd i’r afael â’r argymhellion unigol, ond bod angen gwneud mwy i wella.

Ddiwedd Tachwedd 2015, cynhaliodd Estyn ei ymweliad monitro diweddaraf â gwasanaethau addysg yr awdurdod, ac rwyf am dynnu eich sylw at ganlyniad yr ymweliad hwnnw. 

Rwy’n falch o gael dweud, yn dilyn yr ymweliad hwnnw, fod Estyn wedi dyfarnu bod yr awdurdod wedi gwneud cynnydd digonol o ran yr argymhellion a wnaed yn sgil arolygiad Tachwedd 2012\. O ganlyniad, mae’r Arolygiaeth o’r farn nad oes angen i’r awdurdod fod o dan fesurau arbennig bellach, ac ni fydd angen mwy o wiriadau. 

Mae adroddiad Estyn ar ganlyniad yr ymweliad monitro wedi’i gyhoeddi ar ei wefan. 

Rwyf wedi cwrdd ag arweinydd a phrif weithredwr Sir Fynwy i’w longyfarch ar y cynnydd y mae’r awdurdod lleol wedi’i sicrhau a dyfarniad yr arolygwyr. Gan nad yw’r awdurdod o dan fesurau arbennig bellach, byddaf yn diddymu’r Cyfarwyddyd a gyhoeddwyd, a oedd yn sefydlu bwrdd adfer Gweinidogol i gynnig cymorth a her i’r awdurdod wrth fynd i’r afael ag argymhellion Estyn. 

Er bod y dyfarniad hwn yn adlewyrchu’r cynnydd a wnaed gan yr awdurdod, sy’n bwysig ynddo’i hun, mae hefyd yn adlewyrchu’r ffaith bod yr argoelion ar gyfer pobl ifanc Sir Fynwy yn gwella. Mae’n rhaid inni barhau i ganolbwyntio ar y canlyniadau hyn a sicrhau bod safonau addysg yr awdurdod yn parhau i wella.

Er ein bod yn hapus â chyhoeddiad Estyn, rwyf wedi pwyso ar dîm arweinwyr yr awdurdod i beidio â llaesu dwylo, a sicrhau bod y gwelliant yn parhau ac yn gynaliadwy. Rwyf wedi pwyso arnynt i ystyried beth yw’r ffordd orau o sicrhau bod hyn yn digwydd. 

Yn sgil fy nhrafodaethau gyda’r awdurdod, dwi’n falch o allu nodi bod y mater hwn yn glir ym meddyliau’r tîm arweinwyr a’u bod wrthi’n ystyried sut y gellir parhau â’r cynnydd a wnaed. Mae fy swyddogion, mewn cydweithrediad â’r awdurdod, yn rhoi ystyriaeth i’r strwythurau cymorth mwyaf priodol a fyddai’n caniatáu i’r awdurdod gyflawni hyn.