Corporate Parenting Panel
Thursday, 30 January 2025
10.00 am, Priory, Room 2F Centre Block, County Hall - County Hall, Lewes
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Councillor Kathryn Field (Chair) Councillors Bob Bowdler, Anne Cross, Penny di Cara, Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood, Colin Belsey and Colin Swansborough
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A G E N D A
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Minutes of the meeting held on 23 October 2024 (Pages 3 - 8)
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Apologies for absence
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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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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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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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Any other exempt items considered urgent by the Chair.
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Looked After Children Statistics (Pages 37 - 46) Report by the Director of Children’s Services.
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My things Matter Verbal presentation by Children’s Services Department.
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Fostering recruitment (Pages 47 - 58) Report by the Director of Children’s Services.
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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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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