Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education

Further to Minute No. 12 (2) of 10 November 2020, the Committee considered the report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education presenting an update on the data relating to the Children and Young People’s Plan four priorities that were presented at the previous meeting. The latest Children and Young People’s Plan dashboard was attached to the report.

An informal workshop session had taken place previously to explain the data in detail to Members of the Committee.

Members of the Committee asked questions/raised issues on the following:

·       Indicator 30 and the progress 8 performance in Sefton for Key Stage 4.

·       The relatively low number of secondary schools in the Borough that were rated as “Good” by Ofsted.

·       The National Child Measurement Programme and whether any monitoring with local foodbanks took place. Information would be sought from Public Health, including the support offered to schools by the Council.

·       Indicator 6 and the reporting change implemented by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in relation to self-harm hospital admissions.

·       Indicator 10 and the proportion of children and young people with a diagnosable mental health condition who are receiving treatment from NHS funded community services. What was the impact of Covid-19 on this indicator in the future?

·       Mental health teams in Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

RESOLVED: That

(1)      the report be noted;

(2)      a further update be received by the Committee on the progress of the plan in six months’ time; and

(3)      the Director of Public Health be requested to provide information on the National Child Measurement Programme and whether any monitoring with local foodbanks took place, to include information on support offered to schools through Active Sefton, etc., and the information to be provided to the Senior Democratic Services Officer, for circulation to Members of the Committee.