Issue - meetings

Regionalisation of Adoption in Merseyside

 

 

Meeting: 14/06/2017 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 9)

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Report of the Director of Social Care and Health

Minutes:

The Board considered the report of the Director of Social Care and Health providing supporting information behind the national drive to create Regional Adoption Agencies across England and to set out the proposed model for the Merseyside Regional Adoption Agency across Knowsley, Wirral, Sefton and Liverpool.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)       the proposed model for the Knowsley, Wirral, Sefton and Liverpool Regional Adoption Agency (RAA), including the recommendation that local authority staff are seconded into the RAA, be noted;

 

(2)       the intention for the new model to move into shadow arrangements during the third quarter of 2017 and go live in January 2018 be noted; and

 

(3)       the proposal to use the name AIM (Adoption in Merseyside) as the brand for the RAA going forward be noted.