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Update on Regionalisation of Adoption - Adoption in Merseyside

 

 

Meeting: 05/10/2017 - Cabinet (Item 72)

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Report of the Head Children’s Social Care

Minutes:

Further to Minute No. 6 of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 25 May 2017 the Cabinet considered the report of the Head of Children’s Social Care that provided further details regarding the level of service provision within Sefton, for the proposed model for the Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral Regional Adoption Agency (RAA), known as AIM ( Adoption in Merseyside).

 

 

Decision Made:     

 

That a final report regarding the proposed establishment of the Regional Adoption Agency, Adoption in Merseyside be submitted to the Cabinet scheduled to take place on 2 November 2017.

 

 

Reasons for the Decision:

 

In June 2015 the Department for Education (DfE) published a White Paper that proposed local authorities should create Regional Agencies by 2020 (Regionalising Adoption- June 2015). The White Paper set out an expectation that local authorities should form firm proposals, in partnership with their voluntary partners, to align adoption services into a Regional Adoption Agency (RAA). The Government commitment to this approach was

developed further in the Education and Adoption Act 2016 which gave the government the power to direct a local authority to enter into a RAA if it has not done so by the end of 2017

 

Alternative Options Considered and Rejected:

 

None