Issue - meetings

Members discussed their requirements for a report  on occupancy levels at children’s homes . It was proposed that this be a quarterly update and include information on: how the places at the homes have been filled, the timetable for  filling the places  at the home  and the running costs of unfilled places.  It would also be useful for the committee to understand how the council were different or similar to other boroughs in this subject or other children’s homes run by private organisation. In considering this potential report the committee were advised that it was likely to be an exempt report as the number of children that would signalled in the report could eventually through discussion make them identifiable. It was agreed  that the committee would consider this is in the closed part of the meeting with a review of discussions had after  two or three meetings to decide whether  this report could be considered in the open part of the meeting.