Issue - meetings

(i)       in relation to section 3.5.6 of the report and the query in respect of the nine young people involved in the RiteWorks pilot programme, to note that the Chief Officer – Education would investigate whether all were care experienced, or whether that applied to only seven of the young people, and provide that detail to Members outwith the meeting;

(ii)       to thank the Chief Officers for Education and Integrated Children’s and Families Services and their teams for the work done to support care experienced young people given the additional challenges as a result of the pandemic;

(iii)      to agree the report presented gave a clear sense of how the education service, Council and wider partnership were collaborating to support our care experienced children and young people;

(iv)      to note the evaluation of the range of interventions put in place over 2020/2021 in response to on-going assessment of the identified barriers to achieving successful outcomes;

(v)      to note the commentary on the key measures which provide an overview of the current performance of care experienced children and young people;

(vi)      to note the extent of the work currently being undertaken across the Council and wider partnership to support care experienced children and young people;

(vii)     to instruct the Chief Officer - Education to continue to take an agile approach to the identification of any barriers to care experienced children and young people achieving successful outcomes and take swift action to address them;

(viii)    to instruct the Chief Officer - Education to implement plans to align further resource to the Virtual School to support those returning from Out of Authority placements; and

(ix)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Education to present an annual report on the progress of care experienced children and young people to the Committee, commencing in September 2022.

With reference to article 5 of the minute of its previous meeting, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which provided an overview of the attainment of care experienced children and young people which took account of the individual and often complex needs of the group and considered next steps.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

(a)      note the approach taken to evaluating the extent to which we met the needs of care experienced children and young people outlined in the report;

(b)      note the evaluation of the range of interventions put in place over 2020/2021 in response to on-going assessment of the identified barriers to achieving successful outcomes;

(c)      note the commentary on the key measures which provided an overview of the current performance of care experienced children and young people;

(d)      note the extent of the work currently being undertaken across the Council and wider partnership to support care experienced children and young people;

(e)      instruct the Chief Officer - Education to continue to take an agile approach to the identification of any barriers to care experienced children and young people achieving successful outcomes and take swift action to address them;

(f)       instruct the Chief Education Officer to implement plans to align further resource to the Virtual School to support those returning from Out of Authority placements; and

(g)      instruct the Chief Education Officer to present an annual report on the progress of care experienced children and young people to the Committee, commencing in September 2022.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       in relation to section 3.5.6 of the report and the query in respect of the nine young people involved in the RiteWorks pilot programme, to note that the Chief Officer – Education would investigate whether all were care experienced, or whether that applied to only seven of the young people, and provide that detail to Members outwith the meeting;

(ii)       to thank the Chief Officers for Education and Integrated Children’s and Family Services and their teams for the work done to support care experienced young people given the additional challenges as a result of the pandemic;

(iii)      to agree the report presented gave a clear sense of how the education service, Council and wider partnership were collaborating to support our care experienced children and young people; and

(iv)      to approve the recommendations.