Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Children’s Social Care

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Children’s Social Care in relation to the updated Children’s Social Care Improvement Plan. In April 2016 an Inspection had taken place of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers. The report was published on 27 June 2016.

An action plan was developed that addressed the 11 recommendations made in that report and this was submitted to Ofsted in October 2016. The plan had now been reviewed and updated to focus on current priorities and to ensure that the service continued to improve to ensure that all services provided to children were good or better and improved their outcomes.

The updated plan was available for Committee Members to provide them with an opportunity to comment on the plan, the actions and priorities. Progress reports and the performance scorecard that underpinned the plan would continue to be submitted to the Committee on a six monthly basis.

A “Children’s Services Draft Improvement Plan 2017-18” was attached to the report as an appendix.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the new action plan and priorities for continuous improvement be endorsed; and

(2)       six monthly progress reports, with the performance scorecard that underpinned the action plan, be submitted to the Committee on an on-going basis.