Issue - decisions

That the Cabinet Member:-

(a) notes the current circumstances of the observational contact services;

(b) approves the establishment of an in-house service, within the wider Children and Families Service, to arrange and oversee the delivery of observational contact and ‘family time’ for children in our care and their families; and

(c) authorises the Executive Director of People Services, in liaison with the Executive Director of Resources, to insource the service, and to establish an implementation and project group with relevant senior officers, to oversee and support the insourcing.