Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Children, Education & Families

Forward Plan Ref: 2014/093

Contact: Lucy Butler, Deputy Director for Children’s Social Care & YOS Tel: (01865) 815165

Report by Director for Children’s Services (CA7).

To note and to seek endorsement of the Council’s response to the recent Ofsted Inspection of Children’s Services.

Cabinet is Recommended to:

(a)      approve the Action Plan for submission to Ofsted; and

(b)      request the Performance Scrutiny Committee to undertake a 6 monthly review of progress. 

Recommendations agreed. Further agreed that Cabinet be kept advised of progress.

Cabinet considered a report seeking endorsement of the Council’s response to the recent Ofsted Inspection of Children’s Services.

Councillor Gill Sanders, Shadow Cabinet Member for Children, Education & Families welcomed the report and proposals and stressed the importance of recruiting and retaining good foster carers and providing them with good support and training.

Councillor Melinda Tilley, Cabinet Member for Children, Education & Families in proposing the recommendations thanked Councillor Sanders for her comments and noted that it was an area of work that everyone supported.

Lucy Butler, responded to questions from members and confirmed that the Police also had an inspection regime and had been inspected earlier in 2014. Ofsted were looking at multi agency inspections for the future.

RESOLVED:           to:

(a)      approve the Action Plan for submission to Ofsted; and

(b)      request the Performance Scrutiny Committee to undertake a 6 monthly review of progress.