Agenda item

The Cabinet considered a report of the Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Services which provided an Executive Summary in relation to the new Sufficiency and Commissioning Strategy for Children Looked After and Care Leavers 2022-24. The Strategy outlined the sufficiency position at a point in time, providing local intelligence and data and identified a series of key priorities and actions which would improve the council’s overall sufficiency of placement provision for children and young people who can no longer live with their family (for copy of report see file of minutes).

In Moving the report Councillor T Henderson, Portfolio Holder for Children and Young People’s Services informed Cabinet that the Council had a statutory duty to take steps to secure sufficient accommodation for the children it looked after in the County as far as it was reasonably practicable to do this.  The Strategy had been developed with overarching objectives which would address gaps in provision and would seek to broaden and make improvements to the Council’s sufficiency in the County.

In Seconding the report Councillor C Hood, Portfolio Holder for Adult and Health Services informed Cabinet that the report explained the actions proposed to allow the meeting of statutory duties.

Resolved:

That the recommendations in the report be approved.