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Cabinet Member: Children & the Voluntary Sector

Forward Plan Ref: 2012/097

Contact: Matthew Edwards, Corporate Parenting Manager Tel: (01865) 323098

Report by Director for Children’s Services (CA10).

This report reviews the performance and outcomes of Looked After Children and Care Leavers (LAC) over the last twelve months. It provides the following information so Cabinet Members can fully understand and exercise their responsibilities as corporate parents:

·                    brief updates on the impact and outcomes of all key services supporting children in and on the edge of care. 

·                    key challenges and pressures on the service

·                    actions taken in response to the All Party Parliamentary Working Group on Children Missing from Care

·                     an overview of recent changes in adoption legislation 

·                    the timetable for the Corporate Parenting Service Review.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note this report

Cabinet considered a report that reviewed the performance and outcomes of Looked After Children and Care Leavers (LAC) over the last twelve months.

Mr Edwards, in response to Councillor Ian Hudspeth, who highlighted comments from the Children’s Services Scrutiny Committee that schools be made aware of the benefits of one to one tuition for children in care, replied that there was now much closer individual monitoring to identify issues as they occurred.

RESOLVED:                        to note the report.