Corporate Parenting Panel

 

Thursday, 29 January 2026

 

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

 

 

MEMBERSHIP -

Councillor Kathryn Field (Chair)

Councillors Colin Belsey, Bob Bowdler, Anne Cross, Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood, Colin Swansborough and Georgia Taylor

 

 

A G E N D A

 

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1.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 16 October 2025  (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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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.  

Children's Home Regulations 2015, Regulation 44: Inspection reports for July - September 2025 and recently published Ofsted inspection reports  (Pages 9 - 44)

Report by Director of Children’s Services

 

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7.  

Any other exempt items considered urgent by the Chair. 

 

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8.  

Corporate Parenting Monitoring Report: Children We Care For  (Pages 45 - 54)

Report by Director of Children's Services

 

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9.  

Heading Home update  (Pages 55 - 62)

Report by Director of Children’s Services

 

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10.  

Language of Care update  (Pages 63 - 72)

Report by Director of Children’s Services

 

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11.  

Virtual School Annual Report  (Pages 73 - 86)

Report by Director of Children’s Services

 

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12.  

Any other non-exempt items considered urgent by the Chair. 

 

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PHILIP BAKER

Deputy Chief Executive 

County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent

LEWES BN7 1UE                                                                                                        21 January 2026

 

Contact Summer Kelly, Governance and Democracy Officer,

01273 336654

Email: summer.kelly@eastsussex.gov.uk

 

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