Issue - meetings

To consider the report on Missing Children.

TO FOLLOW

The Chair returned to the meeting and resumed chairmanship.

RECEIVED the report as introduced by Councillor Alexander.  The review was set up in light of a recommendation of the Scrutiny Review of Corporate Parenting in response to concerns that were raised in respect of missing children during the course of the review.

NOTED the following points of discussion:

·        The annual Corporate Parenting report would be available for Councillors in late Summer/early Autumn.

·        Councillor Ejiofor highlighted the recommendation of the review that additional capacity to carry out return home interviews be commissioned.  Debbie Haith - Deputy Director Children & Families – explained that this was being explored, and Barnados had been commissioned to carry out the interviews.  A full response would be given to each recommendation in the review update report.

·        It was suggested that further work was required in terms of integrated reporting between services.  These links could help to identify patterns / potential issues.

RESOLVED that the report be approved and the recommendations noted.