Corporate Parenting Panel

 

Thursday, 30 January 2025

 

10.00 am, Priory, Room 2F Centre Block, County Hall  - County Hall, Lewes

 

MEMBERSHIP -

Councillor Kathryn Field (Chair)

Councillors Bob Bowdler, Anne Cross, Penny di Cara, Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood, Colin Belsey and Colin Swansborough

 

 

A G E N D A

 

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1.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 23 October 2024  (Pages 3 - 8)

 

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2.  

Apologies for absence 

 

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3.  

Disclosure of Interests 

Disclosure by all members present of personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any interest and whether the member regards the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

 

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Urgent items 

Notification of items which the Chair considers to be urgent and proposes to take at the end of the appropriate part of the agenda. Any members who wish to raise urgent items are asked, wherever possible, to notify the Chair before the start of the meeting. In so doing, they must state the special circumstances which they consider justify the matter being considered urgently.

 

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5.  

Exclusion of Press and Public 

To consider excluding the public and press from the meeting for the next two agenda items on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in Category 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to any individual.

 

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6.  

Regulation 44 Quarterly Summary Report - Quarter 3 (October - December 2024)  (Pages 9 - 36)

Report by the Director of Children’s Services.

 

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7.  

Any other exempt items considered urgent by the Chair. 

 

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8.  

Looked After Children Statistics  (Pages 37 - 46)

Report by the Director of Children’s Services.

 

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9.  

My things Matter 

Verbal presentation by Children’s Services Department.

 

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10.  

Fostering recruitment  (Pages 47 - 58)

Report by the Director of Children’s Services.

 

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11.  

Recognising care experience formally as an 'additional category' in equality considerations.  (Pages 59 - 62)

Report by the Director of Children’s Services.

 

 

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12.  

Independent Reviewing Service Annual Report 2023/2024  (Pages 63 - 96)

Report by the Director of Children’s Services.

 

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PHILIP BAKER

Deputy Chief Executive 

County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent

LEWES BN7 1UE                                                                                                        22 January 2025

 

Contact Georgina Seligmann, Governance and Democracy Manager

01273 335230

Email: georgina.seligmann@eastsussex.gov.uk  

 

 

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