Issue - meetings

To receive the results of the 2009 Comprehensive Area Assessment published in December 2009.

The Committee received the report on the results of the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA), introduced by the Assistant Chief Executive – Policy, Performance, Partnership & Communication (PPP&C), Wayne Longshaw. 

Members noted that the Council had scored 3 out of 4 in most areas.  The overall judgement of “adequate” was disappointing but that this was due to the “poor” rating of Children’s Services and that 9 other local authorities had also received low ratings for their Children’s Services departments, and some with more red flags, yet had been given better overall judgements than Haringey.  Comparative CAA data for other Local Authorities who also scored “poor” in an area would be circulated to Committee Members.  

Members commented that the CAA was very positive in contrast to the negative press that Haringey had received.  

The Committee asked what officers were doing to ensure improvements in relation to child protection and was informed that weekly monitoring enabled officers to recognise movement and workshops with staff had been taking place.  On-going auditing was taking place and in November/December 300 cases had been checked with no variance found.  Officers were confident that a good strategy was in place to improve child protection and the quality of data kept by the Children’s Services.

The Committee requested that future CAA reports to the Committee provided more detail on how improvements will be made.

RESOLVED

That the results of the 2009 Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) be noted.