Agenda item

5.1

The minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 17^th July 2017, were approved as a correct record and, arising therefrom:-

(a)      Diane Owens:-

(i)          stated that the issue regarding an update on the Sheffield Children’s Safeguarding Board – Annual Report 2016/17, was included on the Committee’s Work Programme 2017/18, and would be provided at the Committee’s meeting to be held in December 2017;

(ii)        confirmed that she had circulated a short note on the work being undertaken in connection with the radicalisation of children and young people; and

(iii)       stated that she would contact the relevant officer to obtain the information regarding the activities of Youth Officers working on crime prevention in the Beauchief and Greenhill Ward, for circulation to Councillor Bob Pullin; and

(b)      the Chair:-

(i)     agreed to send a letter to the Chair of the Youth Panel at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court, with regard to further improving links between Young People’s Services and Magistrates;

(ii)    stated that the existing contracts for Youth Services in the City had been extended, and asked that Diane Owens finds information on this issue to circulate to all Members of the Committee;

(iii)   stated that the Committee’s request that the Corporate Parenting Board look at performance data for each of the six stages of the adoption process had been agreed;

(iv)   stated that the Committee’s request in connection with the commissioning and delivery of the new contract for young people’s services (which was that “the monitoring, quality and purchasing of services on an as and when needs basis to provide a degree of flexibility in provision, be included in the final contract”) had been forwarded to Councillor Jackie Drayton, Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families;

(v)    requested that the information on the ethnicity of adopters and foster carers in the City, which had been sent to Councillor Mohammad Maroof, on request, be circulated to all Members of the Committee; and

(vi)   stated that a date for the first meeting of the Sub-Group of this Committee, to consider the Recruitment and Retention Strategy for Children’s Services, with a view to identifying an area of focus for a more detailed piece of scrutiny work, had been arranged.