Issue - meetings

[Report of the Interim Director for Children’s Services. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Children and Families.] Refresh of LAC Sufficiency Strategy for 2018-21 setting out how Haringey Council will ensure there is sufficient and appropriate accommodation for children in care.

The Cabinet Member for Children and Families introduced the report, which set out the draft Looked after Children Sufficiency Strategy for approval. Cabinet noted that the Council had a statutory duty to publish this Strategy in order to identify how it would meet its duties to ensure that there is sufficient accommodation for looked after children that meets their needs and is within the local authority area.

RESOLVED

To approve the Looked after Children Sufficiency Strategy attached as Appendix 1.

Reasons for decision

Councils are required to review and refresh their LAC Sufficiency Strategies regularly to take account of changing demographics, shifting patters of demand and developments in the market. This strategy will replace the previous Sufficiency Strategy, which ran until the end of December 2017, offering an opportunity to present refreshed data and some innovative approaches to the challenges of LAC sufficiency.

Alternative options considered

It is a statutory requirement for the Council to produce a Looked after Children Sufficiency Strategy and for it to be made publically accessible. Alternative options were not therefore considered.