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This report provides Cabinet with an update on the delivery of Surrey’s Children’s Improvement Plan, the findings from the Commissioner’s interim review and the recent Ofsted Monitoring Visit and Annual Conversation. A progress update is also provided here on the service restructure and transformation work to implement and embed the new model for Surrey’s Children’s Services.
[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Children, Families, Lifelong Learning & Culture Select Committee]
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED:
Reason for Decision:
The Department for Education appointed Children’s Commissioner will next be reviewing our progress improving practice across children’s services in Surrey in October 2019. The Commissioner will then report to the Department for Education and Secretary of State for Education in November 2019.
The next Ofsted Monitoring Visit, focussed on the Assessment service, will take place October-November 2019 with publication of the report in late-November 2019.
[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Children, Families, Lifelong Learning & Culture Select Committee]
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Children, Young People & Families introduced an update report on improvements to Children’s Services. There were four key elements to the update:
· Progress on specific recommendations of Ofsted
· Findings of the Children’s Commissioner
· Finding of the third Ofsted visit that looked at ‘front door services’, and
· The annual Ofsted conversation.
The Cabinet Member also reported that there had been an unexpected visit from the Probation Service to look at the Youth Offending Service and as they only looked at historical cases it was expected that their report may be a difficult read. She went on to say that the Children’s Commissioner was due back in October/November and Ofsted were due back in October. A further update report would come to Cabinet in December.
In response to Member queries the Cabinet Member explained the process for monitoring areas of concern which included the Surrey Safeguarding Children’s Board, Cabinet, Scrutiny and the Corporate Parenting Board.
Members paid tribute to the Executive Director and staff for the work undertaken and to the Cabinet Member.
RESOLVED:
Reason for Decision:
The Department for Education appointed Children’s Commissioner will next be reviewing our progress improving practice across children’s services in Surrey in October 2019. The Commissioner will then report to the Department for Education and Secretary of State for Education in November 2019.
The next Ofsted Monitoring Visit, focussed on the Assessment service, will take place October-November 2019 with publication of the report in late-November 2019.
The decision was unanimous.