Issue - meetings

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.

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.