Agenda item

13.1

The Committee received a report of the Policy and Improvement Officer containing a summary of the work of the Committee’s Children’s Social Care Task Group.  The Task Group had been established in October, 2017, with the purpose of scrutinising a piece of Children’s Social Care Policy Work, with a view to influencing it in its formative ages, and to ensure that the Committee’s views on effective support to, and safeguarding of, vulnerable groups, improving services to residents in the City and meeting the Council’s commitments around fairness and poverty, were taken into consideration during the development of the policy.

13.2

The Policy and Improvement Officer (Deborah Fellowes) stated that the summary report had been circulated to, and approved by, Members of the Task Group, and referred specifically to the Task Group’s recommendations set under key headings – Sufficiency, Recruitment and Retention and Cross-Cutting Issues, set out in the report now submitted.

13.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)      notes the contents of the report now submitted;

(b)      thanks Deborah Fellowes for the work she had undertaken in co-ordinating the work of the Task Group; and

(c)      approves the submission of the report to the Cabinet on 21^st March, 2018.