Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services

The Council considered the report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education indicating that each year, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) required local Youth Justice Services to produce an Annual Plan to satisfy the grant allocation and to ensure that the YJB was kept abreast of local business and performance. This year, the YJB had recommended that each Youth Justice Service adhered to a template for consistency and that the plan was signed off by the Chair of the local Youth Justice Partnership.

Sefton’s Youth Justice Annual Plan had been produced in accordance with the YJB requirements and had been shared with the Cabinet Member - Children, Schools and Families, the Assistant Director of Children’s Services Social Care and Education (Help and Protection), the Executive Director for Children’s Social Care and Education, the Assistant Director of People (Communities) and the Executive Director - People. The Chair of the Youth Justice Service Partnership, Paul Holden, Supt. Local Policing, Merseyside Police had signed the Plan on behalf of the partnership who were consulted during the plan production phase.

The Sefton Youth Justice Annual Plan was attached to the report.

It was moved by Councillor Roscoe, seconded by Councillor Dowd and

RESOLVED: That

(1)      the Youth Justice Service – Annual Plan 2024/25 be approved; and

(2)      in the event of subsequent comments by the Youth Justice Board, delegated approval be granted to the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education, in consultation with the Cabinet Member – Children, Schools and Families, to finalise the Youth Justice Service Annual Plan.