Agenda

It has previously been agreed to alternate the responsibility of Chair for the joint meetings between Corporate parenting Advisory Committee and Children’s safeguarding Policy and Practice Committee. The Chair of the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Practice Committee is due to chair this meeting.

The chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.(Late items will be considered under the agenda item that they appear . New items will be dealt with at item 8 below. New items of exempt business  will be dealt with at item 10 below.

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

 (ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Members’ Register of Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interest are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

The purpose of this report is to brief Members on two key areas of performance: Priority 2: Enable every child and young person to thrive and achieve their           potential; and Priority 4: Safeguard children and adults from abuse and neglect wherever possible, and deal with it appropriately and effectively where it does occur.

The purpose of this report is to brief Corporate Parenting and Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Practice Committee members on quality assurance in relation to our progress against performance data and audit activity. In other words ‘how well we know ourselves’.  

This report provides the data collated during this quarter and a view of how the project‘s aims have developed. Also  there  is a report back on the  quality assurance activity in relation to the compilation of court reports as requested at the  last joint meeting.

To consider any new items  of urgent business as per item 3.

That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of the following items as they may contain exempt information as defined in section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972(as amended by Section 12A of the local Government act 1985):paras 1&2 :namely information relating to any individual , and information likely to reveal  the identity of an individual.

To consider any new items of exempt urgent business as per item 3.