Issue - meetings

To receive the scrutiny review report on corporate parenting. TO FOLLOW

RECEIVED the tabled, updated cover report on the Corporate Parenting Review which included comments by the finance and legal teams and the final scrutiny review report, introduced by Cllr Ejiofor, Chair of the review.

NOTED

• The following amendments to the recommendations were agreed: Recommendation 5;  That this be extended to include reference to other Council committees with a role in relation to children’s issues and Recommendation 8; That the scrutiny review proposed in this recommendation also include consideration of the financial impact and that work be conducted to see how the presentation of statistics for children in care could be made more transparent.

• The Committee asked that the following action arising from the meeting held on 30^th March 2011 be chased (Action No. 253).  The Committee, the Cabinet Member and the Chair of the Safeguarding Policy & Practice Advisory Committee all recognised that there was duplication of work among committees.  The Committee asked that the Children & Young People’s Service provide a short report on the roles, remits and composition of the different committees which consider the safeguarding of children including the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Practice Advisory Committee, Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and the Children’s Trust, for future consideration by the Committee. (Action No. 235.1). 

RESOLVED

i.                    That recommendation 5 be extended to include reference to other Council committees with a role in relation to children’s issues.

ii.                  That in relation to recommendation 8 the scrutiny review proposed in this recommendation also include consideration of the financial impact.

iii.                That the scrutiny review report on Corporate Parenting be approved subject to the amendments above.