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Corporate Parenting Strategy 2022-2025

Meeting: 19/01/2022 - Cabinet (Item 8)

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[To approve the Corporate Parenting Strategy]

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.      That the Corporate Parenting Strategy 2022-2025 be endorsed.

 

2.      That Cabinet member roles and responsibilities as Corporate Parents be noted.

Minutes:

Councillor Ian Brookfield moved the recommendations in the report Corporate Parenting Strategy 2022-2025.

 

Councillor Beverley Momenabadi reported that the Strategy had been co-produced with Care Leavers Independent Collective and the Children in Care Council. It aimed to raise awareness about the strengths, and challenges with the Council’s corporate parenting responsibilities. It showcased work and achievements over the last two years but also holds the Council to account in making sure that children in the care of the city and Councillors as corporate parents make sure that they have the best opportunities and life outcomes as children who are not in care.

 

Resolved:

1.    That the Corporate Parenting Strategy 2022-2025 be endorsed.

 

2.    That Cabinet member roles and responsibilities as Corporate Parents be noted.