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Decision:
RESOLVED:
That the Cabinet Member of the Month update be
noted.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Children and Families
introduced her update report. The following key points were
made:
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Transformation Assurance Board- As part of her
commitment to continue to embed change in Children’s Social
Care, the Cabinet Member had taken on chairmanship of the
Children’s Social Care Transformation and Assurance Board.
The Board provides oversight of transformation activity in
children’s social care. The Board is supported by external
independent members and had cross party member
representation.
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Family Safeguarding Model- the directorate had
recently launched a ‘Phase 2’ implementation of the
Family Safeguarding model in children’s social care and had
been successful in securing funding from the Department for
Education that enables them to work in partnership with the Centre
for Family Safeguarding from November
2022 to March 2023.
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Building Belonging Programme- The Building Belonging
Programme would provide a multi-agency approach to preventing
children and young people with complex needs entering the criminal
justice system. The partnership had been successful in a bid for
funding from NHS England to implement a pilot in one district in
Surrey.
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Foster carer remuneration- Recruiting and retaining
in-house foster carers was key to
the
sufficiency strategy of providing Surrey homes for
Surrey children. Currently 51% of children in foster care,
excluding those living with Council foster carers from their own
kinship network, are placed with Independent Fostering Agency
carers. Investment totalling £2.7m had been approved to bring fostering allowances and skills
payments more in line with competitors and to reward and
incentivise areas of fostering that are more complex or difficult
to recruit to.
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Staff were thanked for their hard work during the
three week joint targeted inspection. Findings and recommendations
would be made available in due course.
RESOLVED:
That the Cabinet Member of the Month update be
noted.