Issue details

Establishment of Looked After Children’s Support Service

 

 

Purpose of Report: The report will set out the plans to develop a new Looked After Children’s Support Service. This new service will facilitate supervised contact between children who are looked after and their parents. The service will operate from a single venue and provide professional oversight and assessment of all contact arrangements.

Members will be asked to approve the establishment of the service and financial implications of its establishment.

Decision type: Non-key

Decision status: Decision Made

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Implication: Financial; Human Resources;

Level of Risk: 01-03 Acceptable;

Decision due: 25/10/12 by Executive Member for Education, Children and Young People

Lead member: Executive Member for Education, Children and Young People

Lead director: Corporate Director of Children, Education and Communities

Department: Directorate of Adults, Children & Education

Contact: Eoin Rush, Assistant Director Children's Specialist Services Email: eoin.rush@york.gov.uk Tel: 01904 554212 Email: eoin.rush@york.gov.uk.

Consultation process

A process of extensive consultation is underway. The consultation includes workshops with those existing staff who are ‘in scope’ of this development. Direct consultation via an online mailbox is available and a regularly updated Frequently Asked Questions document is published.

Consultees

Consultees include those existing staff currently ‘in scope’ for the new service, the wider network of children's agencies in York.

Consultation with colleagues from the Child and Family Court Advisory Service is planned and this feedback will be included in the report.

Making Representations: By email to the report author

Decisions

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