Issue - meetings

As part of the matters arising report, there was enclosed a response to Members concerns about the process and quality assurance arrangements in place for selecting third sector organisations to provide mentoring  to Care leavers.   The Committee considered this information and there was a remark on the lack of information included on KIS, a sub group of CONEL. It was felt that officers should review the organisations recent Ofsted report, and also check that the services provided by this group could cater for vulnerable groups of young people.  Whilst there was  an overview of the mentoring project and the organisations that would be involved in providing the mentoring services to care leavers provided, the Committee wanted to  view  background information on how the organisations were chosen.  They wanted a step by step outline of the process followed for checking and assessing the organisations offering to deliver these services to young care leavers. This was to enable a more fuller understanding on why these organisations were deemed appropriate for delivering this service  and to  be further  assured of the quality assurance steps being taken.  The Head of Children in Care agreed that she would speak with the Head of the Youth services who would have completed the quality checks on the organisations  and provide a fuller report on the process followed  for quality checking  organisation working with  vulnerable young people  and report back to the  committee at their next meeting in December.