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Agenda item

Out of County Inquiry Report - Cabinet Response

To receive the Cabinet Response to the Committee’s inquiry report.

Minutes:

The Chairperson welcomed Councillor Graham Hinchey (Cabinet Member, Children and Families), Claire Marchant (Director Social Services and Deborah Driffield (Assistant Director Children’s Services) to the meeting.

 

The Chairperson invited Councillor Hinchey to make a statement in which he confirmed that out of 19 recommendations outlined in the report, 11 were full recognised, some partially and only one was rejected.  The current position is that within the next year there will be 5 residential homes for children.  Different types of accommodation is needed, they are small family type homes with 2/3 bedrooms. 

 

Members were invited to comment, seek clarification or raise questions on the report.  Those discussions were summarised as follows:

 

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Members noted that there a placement commissioning strategy is being developed which covers the development of an accurate care plan through to ensuring that the service that is commissioned meets the outcome for the young person rather it fitting into the current provision available.  Whilst officers accepted that there is a considerable overspend the majority of which relates to placements, Members were advised that it is important to get the range of services right going forward.

 

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Members stressed the importance of ensuring that this strength based approach was fully embedded with our partners, for example the Police and the Probation Service and that it should be kept under review. 

 

AGREED – That the Chairperson writes to the Cabinet Member on behalf of the Committee expressing their comments and observations outlined during the way forward discussion.

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