Committee details
Corporate Parenting Panel
Purpose of committee
The Corporate Parenting Panel consists of 21 Members of the Council including the Executive Member for Children and Young People or the Executive Support Member, and the Chair or Vice-Chair of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Committee.
There are up to ten non-voting co-opted Members including education representatives and representatives from other agencies.
The Panel has the following responsibilities:
1. To ensure that the Council acts as a good corporate parent to children and young people in care and care leavers, including:
Young people in residential care
Children and young people in foster care
Children placed for adoption
Children placed at home under Placement with Parents Regulations
Young people who are living in supported lodgings
Young people in secure services
Young people in custody
2. To engage and listen to the views of children, young people and their carers for whom the Council is the parent.
3. To work in partnership with other statutory agencies to drive forward improvements in care.
4. To act as the governing body for the Virtual School for looked after children and young people.
5. To act as the governing body for Aycliffe secure services, monitoring and ensuring the quality of secure accommodation, education and care.
The CPP produces an annual report which can be downloaded below:
Membership
- Councillor Mamie Simmons (Chair)
- Councillor Michelle Walton (Vice-Chair)
- Councillor Robert Adcock-Forster
- Councillor Joyce Charlton
- Councillor Stacey Deinali
- Councillor Julie Griffiths
- Councillor Ted Henderson
- Councillor Cathy Hunt
- Councillor Bill Kellett
- Councillor Mike McGaun
- Councillor Lesley Mavin
- Councillor Shirley Quinn
- Councillor Anne Reed
- Councillor Ken Robson
- Councillor Kathryn Rooney
- Councillor Anita Savory
- Councillor Paul Sexton
- Councillor Samantha Townsend
- Councillor Chris Varty
- Councillor Marion Wilson
- Julie Bell
- Craig Brown
- Joanne Gamble
- Emma Reed
- Wendy Taylor
- Fiona Tweddle
- Rebecca Woods
- Young Persons Representative of the Children in Care Council
Contact information
Support officer: Jill Hogg. 03000 269 711