Issue - meetings

To receive the Corporate Parenting Performance Report from the Head of Service Children in Care .

The Executive Director for Childrens Services presented the Corporate Data Set and spoke to some of the key details.

Following the presentation the committee discussed a few areas;

·       The demographics of children in care including the proportion of unaccompanied asylum seekers.

·       The role of the Harbour Service to provide support before children reach care and the retrospective analysis conducted on those who do reach care

·       The investment in Aspire and the proportion of adoptions in the data set delivered by Aspire and the role of Harbour service in preventing placement breakdown.

·       Initial health assessment and annual health check completion raised as a concern and some of the limiting factors such as out of county placements were shared

The Chair and Cllrs Parry and Somper supported by the Executive Director for Childrens to raise the profile of the issue around health assessments and checks to David Freeman.