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The Panel received a presentation fromInvesting in Children on recent activity by the Children in Care Council (CiCC) (for copy of presentation see file of minutes). 

Highlights included that additional funding had been granted for the Art and Wellbeing Café following the project receiving the High Sheriff award.  Luke was pleased to report that he has been selected as a representative on the Children’s Commissioner’s Care Experienced Advisory Board.

Luke alluded to the discussion at the joint CICC /CPP meeting held the previous evening, at which the two proposed priorities for the coming year were discussed, namely life skills and savings.  Investing in Children will discuss these proposals with wider groups of care experienced young people who were not at the event, or who do not link with the CiCC, to seek their views before a decision is made.

The Panel praised the amount of work undertaken by the CiCC and thanked Luke for the consistently high standard of his presentations.