Issue - meetings

(i)         to note the progress in relation to progressing the staffing restructure within the Children’s Residential Service;

(ii)        to note the impact of change on work practices and implications for improved outcomes; and

(iii)       to note that the Head of Children’s Services would provide a service update on the review would be provided if necessary.

With reference to article 5 of the minute of the meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee of 1 June 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education and Children’s Services which provided an update on the progress of the Children’s Residential Service Redesign, originally outlined and agreed at ECS Committee on 17 November 2016.

The report recommended –

that the Committee

(a)       note the progress in relation to progressing the staffing restructure within the Children’s Residential Service; and

(b)       note the impact of change on work practices and implications for improved outcomes.

The Committee resolved:

(i)         to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)        to note that the Head of Children’s Services would provide a service update on the review if necessary.