Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of the Children & Young People’s Service)  To report on the outcome of the Children & Young People’s Service Annual Performance Assessment.

Councillor Egan took the Chair for this item.

The committee received a report on the outcome of the Children & Young People’s Service’s Annual Performance Assessment.

Officers were congratulated on an encouraging report and asked for points of clarification on a number of issues.  Officers confirmed that funding was not currently supplied to the Service retrospectively for children who joined schools mid-way through the school year; other challenges also had to be overcome by nature of the borough’s high levels of mobile population.

In terms of reducing school absences amongst Looked After Children (LAC), it was noted that the recent placing of the LAC Education Team within the wider Looked After Children team was proving to be beneficial, through working with fosters carers and schools.

RESOLVED:

1.  That the outcomes of the Annual Performance Assessment be noted.