Issue - meetings

To consider changes to the terms of reference of the Corporate Parenting Panel, in the light of a report by the Governance Committee.

13.1   The Council considered changes to the terms of reference of the Corporate Parenting Panel, in the light of a report from the Governance Committee (pages 47 to 52).

13.2   The Chairman explained that the anticipated Ofsted report into Children’s Services and the outcome of consultation with other partners might lead to a need to make some adjustments and she therefore sought Council’s agreement to allow the Director of Children and Family Services to make any necessary amendments to the Panel’s terms of reference in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People.  Any changes would be reported in the Members’ Information Service newsletter.

13.3   Resolved –

(1)     That the new terms of reference and membership of the Corporate Parenting Panel, as set out at Appendix 1 to the report, be approved; and

(2)     That the Director of Children and Family Services be authorised to make any necessary amendments to the Panel’s terms of reference as a result of the recent Ofsted inspection, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, any such changes to be reported in the Members’ Information Service newsletter.