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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and any comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: that the committee note the Forward Work Plan at Appendix 1 and feedback on any other areas for inclusion.
RESOLVED: that the Committee: 1. Note the programme of visits as outlined in Appendix 1 and indicate any expressions of interest in attending any of the visits contained within the programme. 2. Identify any other appropriate and relevant services or organisations to be included within the member visit programme that would benefit the committee in carrying out their role.
The Committee noted that Council, at its Annual meeting appointed Councillor Merry as Chair of the Committee for the 2024-2025 municipal year and the following Members to the Committee: Councillors Ebrahim, Kaaba, Lay, Lister, Littlechild and Taylor
The Committee noted that Council, at its Annual meeting agreed the following Terms of Reference of the Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee: 1. The Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee is responsible for advising the Council and for advocating on the collective behalf of all are leavers and children looked after by Cardiff Council, to ensure that they receive the best possible care and support. 2. To achieve the best outcomes for children looked after and care leavers the Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee will: Actively Promote: · and operate collective responsibility between the Council, Social Services, Health, Education and other statutory agencies to achieve good parenting for all children in the care of Cardiff Council and to ensure that they are appropriately safeguarded to achieve the best possible chances in life. · real and sustained improvements by ensuring that mechanisms in place take full account of: • the importance of promoting and respecting the child or young person’s dignity. Committee Terms of Reference • the characteristics, culture and beliefs of the child or young person. • the importance of promoting the upbringing of the child by the child’s family, in so far as doing so is consistent with promoting the child’s well-being. • Where the child is under the age of 16, the views, wishes and feelings of those with parental responsibility for the chid, in so far as doing so is consistent with well-being of the child and is reasonably practicable. Identify key priorities by: · engaging with relevant children looked after forums, as determined by the young people, to drive the committee’s priorities. · ensuring that the committee agenda focuses on what children looked after identify as relevant for their growth and development. Co-ordinate and collaborate to: · seek to ensure that coordinated services are delivered across all statutory and voluntary sector organisations. · engage and develop a shared dialogue with the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Committee to avoid agenda duplication, whilst working together to exploit detailed analysis of key performance data. · engage with, and embrace future Welsh Government plans and expectations to extend corporate parenting responsibilities across Public Services. Monitor Outcomes and Performance to: h. ensure that performance monitoring systems are in place, and to regularly review performance data to ensure that good outcomes for children looked after and care leavers are being delivered consistently. i. review the quality and effectiveness of: • Children Looked After Services • Education Services • Health Services 3. To provide an Annual Report to the Council’s Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Committee, Cabinet, and full Council. Committee 4. To ensure the corporate parenting strategy is implemented effectively, reviewed and revised as necessary, to meet the needs of children looked after and care leavers. 5. To recommend the appointment of co-opted members to the Committee for approval by Council. 6. To make recommendations to Cabinet and Council in respect of any matters within the remit of the Committee. Each member of the Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee will undertake relevant training, to enable them to properly discharge their duties.
Apologies were received from Councillors Lay, Lister and Taylor.
None declared.
The Minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2024 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairperson.
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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
The Chairperson invited Deborah Williams, Virtual Headteacher, to introduce the item. Members received a presentation which provided an update on the progress and development of the Children Looked After Virtual School and Child Looked After Virtual School Headteacher. Members were informed that the Virtual School and Virtual School Headteacher had been funded as part of the Welsh Government’s 2-year pilot which had now come to an end. An interim evaluation had been completed by WG researchers in January 2024. WG had commissioned an independent evaluation which was underway and was expected to be completed by March 2025. The Committee was provided with data from 2023-24 and 2024-25 on ALN – IDPs started/ongoing, reviews, new IDPs following ALN notification, transfer of responsibility and the virtual school register. Members were provided with details of key work so far which included developing knowledge and understanding of children and young people; improved communication with schools; relationships; collaborative working; vocational education; training for schools governors, IROs; designated teacher forums and delivering presentations to WG and partners to provide update, to influence. Challenges included increasing capacity to match the needs and vision; funding and sustainability; children and young people living outside of Cardiff and outside Wales; provision; complex cases; ALN-BESD; PEPs. Members were also provided with information on future plans such as making change happen; direct conversations and discussions with WG (ongoing through National Development Group); research alongside Scotland and England, 7 May; presentations to the Policy Forum 18 April; provision in and out of county; ALN; early discussions with Team Seven and CLA PDG. Members were asked to comment or raise questions on the information received. Those discussions are summarised as follows: · Members asked if officers shared best practice and if there was knowledge of WG funding going forwards and if not what contingencies were in place – Officers responded that in terms of best practice meetings took place regularly with the virtual school headteachers in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Ynys Mon. Termly meetings also took place with everyone in terms of talking through what was happening. Officers also attended conferences and shared best practice with colleagues in other local authorities and provided peer to peer support. In respect of funding every local authority had been provided with the same amount - £200k over two years. There was a recognition that there was a need to increase capacity. · Members asked if there were any patterns in terms of requiring specialist provision and if a child was out of county whether they were more likely to be out of school – Officers responded that Cardiff engaged in cross border work. If a child was moved out of county and to England it was a challenge in terms of getting the young person into school. If they had additional learning needs and an IDP it would need to be referred to the model implemented in England. The challenges were understood but many of the difficulties related to communications. It needed to be recognised by the WG and people encouraged to work more collaboratively to ensure admissions into schools. RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and any comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
The Chairperson invited Carly Davies, Programme Manager, Cardiff Commitment and Vicky Poole, Cardiff Commitment, to provide a presentation update in relation to the Cardiff Commitment Project and the targeted support it was offering to Cardiff’s Children Looked After (CLA). Members were informed that supporting the progression of young people was a key priority for the education directorate and through the Cardiff Commitment strong relationships were being built between Cardiff’s schools, employers, and higher education and further education partners to support young people to access good jobs and careers. Over 300 employers in Cardiff were working with Cardiff Commitment to offer young people employment and training opportunities, work experience and curriculum enrichment activities. Members were asked to comment or raise questions on the information received. Those discussions are summarised as follows: · Members asked for a breakdown of male and female data and hard to reach young people from black and brown communities – Officers responded that this data would be shared with the Committee. One platform was currently being used to pull the data. There had been a focus on Cardiff Commitment working along the southern arc with communities most in need of engagement and engaging more with the youth services outside school hours. The aim was to attract employers into the communities by convening community evenings and working with community groups working in the communities as opposed to targeting work experience in schools. This would provide rich data on ALN, children looked after and male and female statistics. Members were also directed to the data provided to Cardiff’s Race Equality Taskforce. · Members asked if employers set targets to retain a certain amount of staff who had been CLA or had ALN and if not could this be a request in the future – Officers responded that partner support was a priority – to share best practice and support partners to deliver on priorities. The focus of Cardiff Commitment was to work with partners with a key focus on the best practice of agencies providing facilities for children who were looked after. The aim was to work with them to develop more targeted support and looking at ways to work with them to ensure children were able to access these opportunities. · The Operational Manager, Safeguarding Services, informed Members that Cardiff Council was completing an Operational Plan which would be finalised in the next few weeks and included opportunities for children across the city. Every department across the Council was being asked to look at what it could commit. In addition the Corporate Parenting Charter would be going to Cabinet in July 2024. · Members referred to the opportunities of working with John Lewis/Waitrose to open opportunities for CLA young people residing outside of Cardiff. Officers responded that this fitted in with the EQI targets and would be mutually beneficial. John Lewis had given a gold ticket for young people to progress straight through for interview and the young people were also coached by the branch manager. John Lewis was fulfilling its EQI targets but they were also sourcing good employees who wanted to work there. They were not called employees but partners. RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and any comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
The Chair invited Sarah Skuse- Operational Manager Children’s Services to introduce the item which was a presentation providing Members with an update on Children and Young People Places out of Area. The Committee was reminded that the report had been prepared in response to a request made by elected members at the Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee held on 11 March 2024. Members were informed that there were a number of reasons why a child or young person may be placed OOA, including: Placement with family – for some children they travel across the UK and sometimes abroad; Placement sufficiency – there are not always enough of the right placements to meet the needs of children at the right time; Complex needs – for some children, their needs are so complex that they require a specialist placement often only available in one location, for example, Secure accommodation. It was noted that there were currently 359 children (35% of the CLA population) placed out of area and the risk of being placed OOA increases with the age of the child or young person. Members were also advised that: 21% of children placed out of area are placed with family (i.e. placement with parents and Kinship); 47% of children placed out of area are placed with foster carers. This is usually as a result of sufficiency of placements; 22% of children placed out of Cardiff are in Residential placements, 93% of this group are aged 10yrs and over. Members were asked to comment or raise questions on the information received. Those discussions are summarised as follows: · Members asked what the main challenges were when a young person was sent outside Cardiff and what was the reason for it – Officers responded that challenges included being able to access health care, dental care, opticians and schools. For some young people it was a smooth transition process for others with more complex needs it was challenging with significant delays particular in the case of education. · Members asked for details of parent and child placements and the type of accommodation they were provided with – Officers responded that parents were referred by midwifery or due to risks that the child could not be placed with a parent in the community. The type of accommodation varied from a foster placement with additional support to some cases where the risk was so high that the parents needed constant supervision with residential units set up to provide that type of placement, usually for 12 weeks and then returning to the community or through court to consider care arrangements. · Members asked if there were any partnership arrangements with other local authorities, for example if a young person from outside the authority was placed in the care of Cardiff a social worker from another authority could visit and likewise a Cardiff social worker could visit where a Cardiff child was placed out of county. In addition, whether housing could be provided on a partnership basis – Officers responded that for some of that to happen there would need to be a change in legislation. Occasionally the authority could support young people but depending on the level of need support might be required. · Members enquired as to what criteria was used when placing a child in foster care, for example there was a lack of people from diverse backgrounds and whether children going out of Cardiff were being placed in a similar religious or cultural background – Officers recognised there was a need for more foster families from diverse backgrounds. If carers were found who matched the characteristics of the young person it would be an important part of the matching criteria. The distance from Cardiff would also be considered. RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report and comments/observations be passed to officers in the form of minutes.
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RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
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RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
The Chairperson invited Stephanie Rogers Lewis- Accommodation & Support Manager Housing & Communities to introduce the item. Members were provided with a presentation on the Young Person’s Gateway. Members were informed the Gateway was set up in 2015 to allow better partnership working between Housing and Children’s Services, ensuring that regardless of whether a young person had a housing duty or a Children’s Services duty, their accommodation options and pathways were the same based on the Young Person’s needs. Members were provided with information on the pathways into the Young Person’s Gateway, the Salvation Army and Llamau Contracts, the Training Tenancy Scheme, the Young Person’s Housing First Scheme, the introduction of a Multi-disciplinary Team, Increasing Accommodation and steps that the actions that were being taken to address demand. RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
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RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
This Chairperson invited Becci Ingram, General Manager Children Young People and Family Health Services to introduce the item. Members were provided with a presentation on the Cardiff & Vale Health Board Update including Themes Issues and Future Plans. Members were advised on Current Issues, Recent Developments (there had been a number of changes to the Health Authority’s model of working which had positively impacted the number of assessments completed and the backlog); Health Assessments; Dentistry (the demand on NHS Dental Practices remained high with many oversubscribed and not taking on new patients. The committee was asked to explore whether there is an opportunity for Dental Practices in the region to accept or prioritise Children Looked After, even when are oversubscribed and not taking on any new patients); Patient Information System (A new module for Children Looked After had been developed within PARIS. Processes had been digitised to maximise capacity of clinicians and resources and enable more effective reporting, audit and analysis across the service); Children out of area (which numbered 387). RESOLVED: that the Committee note the report.
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RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
RESOLVED: Deferred until next meeting
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RESOLVED: that the committee note the Forward Work Plan at Appendix 1 and feedback on any other areas for inclusion.
The Chairperson invited Matt Osborne, Operational Manager, Safeguarding, Services, to introduce the item on the Forward Work Programme. Members were informed that the theme for the next Committee in December 2024 would be Emotional Health and Wellbeing, followed by Educational Achievement in January 2025. RESOLVED: that the committee note the Forward Work Plan at Appendix 1 and feedback on any other areas for inclusion.
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RESOLVED: that the Committee: 1. Note the programme of visits as outlined in Appendix 1 and indicate any expressions of interest in attending any of the visits contained within the programme. 2. Identify any other appropriate and relevant services or organisations to be included within the member visit programme that would benefit the committee in carrying out their role.
The Chairperson invited Matt Osborne to introduce the item on the Member Visit Programme. Members were informed that opportunities were being sourced for elected members as part of the CPAC committee to understand Cardiff’s children and young people. It was a combination of meeting the children and young people and the support services around those children and young people. Some useful services had been included but the list was not exclusive and, if there were any others, Members were encouraged to contact Lucy Thomas, CPAC Officer who would facilitate and arrange visits to those facilities for members. The Chairperson encouraged members to take the opportunity to talk directly to either children and young people themselves or those delivering services and also foster carers. RESOLVED: that the Committee: 1. Note the programme of visits as outlined in Appendix 1 and indicate any expressions of interest in attending any of the visits contained within the programme. 2. Identify any other appropriate and relevant services or organisations to be included within the member visit programme that would benefit the committee in carrying out their role.
None.
2 December 2024 at 3.00 pm.
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