Issue - meetings

"ROC" Reducing Repeat Removals of Children into Care Project Procurement Approval

 

 

Meeting: 18/01/2022 - Cabinet (Item 47)

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To consider a report of the Portfolio(s) Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help and Adult Social Care and Health.

 

Decision:

Decision of Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help

 

(a)           To agree, the procurement process for a holistic programme for vulnerable women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeat removals of children from their care, “Pause Practice” in Dorset.

 

(b)           That the further step of making any contract award be delegated to the Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help in consultation with the Executive Director of People – Children.

 

Reason for the decision

 

Cabinet is required to approve all key decisions with financial consequences of £500,000 or more.

 

Decision - 'ROC' - Reducing Repeat Removals of Children in Care Project Procurement Approval - Dorset Council

Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help set out a report to begin the procurement process for a holistic programme for vulnerable women, who had  experienced, or were at risk of, repeat removals of children from their care. The programme aimed to give women the opportunity to ‘pause’ and take control of their lives by breaking a destructive cycle that caused both them and their children deep trauma.

 

Cllr M Rennie, the Domestic Violence Champion spoke passionately in support of the initiative and the Cabinet Lead for health explained the work of the “task and finish” group, in order to get the report to this point. She asked members to support the recommendation.

 

Cabinet members indicated that they were “minded” to support recommendation.

 

Decision of Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help

 

(a)           To agree, the procurement process for a holistic programme for vulnerable women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeat removals of children from their care, “Pause Practice” in Dorset.

 

(b)           That the further step of making any contract award be delegated to the Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help in consultation with the Executive Director of People – Children.

 

Reason for the decision

 

Cabinet is required to approve all key decisions with financial consequences of £500,000 or more.