Issue - meetings

(i)            to note how children’s social work had taken forward the implementation of the new duties contained within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; and

(ii)          to note the request by the Education and Children’s Services Committee in June 2017 to provide a report in March 2018 on the project costs of implementing Part 11 – Continuing Care.

With reference to article 18 of the minute of the meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee of 17 November 2016, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education and Children’s Services which provided an update on the anticipated financial and service implications of the implementation of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 as it affected children’s social work.

The report recommended –

that the Committee

(a)       note how children’s social work had taken forward the implementation of the new duties contained within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; and

(b)       note the request by the Education and Children’s Services Committee in June 2017 to provide a report in March 2018 on the project costs of implementing Part 11 – Continuing Care.

The Committee resolved:

to approve the recommendations.