Issue - meetings
NI 59
Meeting: 08/03/2010 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 32)
32 NI 59 - Initial assessments for children's social care completed within 7 days 
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To consider and note the report providing background details on NI59 (initial assessments completed within 7 days) performance issues.
Minutes:
The Committee received the report on National Indicator (NI) – Initial Assessments Completed in 7 Days introduced by Mark Gurrey, Deputy Director C&F who emphasised that whilst timeliness was important the issue of the quality of assessments was paramount in some more complex cases.
The Chair would ask the Cabinet Member for Children & Young People to keep the Committee informed of the judgements by the Independent Auditors on Initial and Core Assessments.
The Deputy Director Children & Families would provide links to the procedures for assessments followed by the Council.
RESOLVED that the report be noted.