Issue - meetings
Strategies to Manage Out of Authority Residential Placements - OPE/19/414
Meeting: 12/11/2019 - Education Operational Delivery Committee (Item 9)
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Decision:
The Committee resolved:-
(i) to endorse the work being progressed across Integrated Children and Family Services to mitigate against the use of Out of Authority residential placements; and
(ii) to note the changes made to service delivery to support a rebalancing of the care profile of the City’s looked after children.
Minutes:
With reference to article 6 of the minute of its meeting of 17 January 2019, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Education Officer which set out Aberdeen City Council’s strategies to manage Out of Authority residential places.
The report recommended:-
that Committee –
(a) endorse the work being progressed across Integrated Children and Family Services to mitigate against the use of Out of Authority residential placements; and
(b) note the changes made to service delivery to support a rebalancing of the care profile of the City’s looked after children.
The Committee resolved:-
to approve the recommendations.