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Children's Services Committee Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2016 Time: 10:00 Venue: Edwards Room, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH Persons attending the meeting are requested to turn off mobile phones. Membership Mr R Smith - Chairman Mr A Adams Mr J Joyce Mr R Bearman Mr M Kiddle-Morris Mrs J Chamberlin Mr J Perkins Ms E Corlett Ms C Rumsby Mr D Crawford Mr M Sands Mr P Gilmour Mr B Stone Mrs S Gurney (Vice-Chairman) Miss J Virgo Mr B Hannah Mr A White Church Representatives Mrs H Bates Mr A Mash Non-voting Parent Governor Representatives Mrs K Byrne Mrs S Vertigan Non-voting Schools Forum Rep Mrs A Best-White Non-voting Co-opted Advisors Mr A Robinson Norfolk Governors Network Ms T Rainbow Special Needs Education Ms V Aldous Primary Education Mr J Mason Post-16 Education Ms C Smith Secondary Education For further details and general enquiries about this Agenda please contact the Committee Officer: 1 Julie Mortimer on 01603 223055 or email [email protected] Under the Council’s protocol on the use of media equipment at meetings held in public, this meeting may be filmed, recorded or photographed. Anyone who wishes to do so must inform the Chairman and ensure that it is done in a manner clearly visible to anyone present. The wishes of any individual not to be recorded or filmed must be appropriately respected. 2 A g e n d a 1. To receive apologies and details of any substitute members attending 2. To confirm the minutes of the Children's Services Committee meeting Page 6 held on 28 June 2016. 3. Declarations of Interest If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is on your Register of Interests you must not speak or vote on the matter. If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is not on your Register of Interests you must declare that interest at the meeting and not speak or vote on the matter In either case you may remain in the room where the meeting is taking place. If you consider that it would be inappropriate in the circumstances to remain in the room, you may leave the room while the matter is dealt with. If you do not have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest you may nevertheless have an Other Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects - your well being or financial position - that of your family or close friends - that of a club or society in which you have a management role - that of another public body of which you are a member to a greater extent than others in your ward. If that is the case then you must declare such an interest but can speak and vote on the matter. 4. Any items of business the Chairman decides should be considered as a matter of urgency 5. Public QuestionTime Fifteen minutes for questions from members of the public of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected] ) by 5pm on Thursday 8 September 2016. For guidance on submitting public question, please view the Consitution at www.norfolk.gov.uk . 6. Local Member Issues/ Member Questions Fifteen minutes for local member to raise issues of concern of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected] ) by 5pm on Thursday 8 September. 7. Integrated Performance and Finance Monitoring Report 2016 -17 Page 20 3 8. Annual Review of Norfolk Residential Service Page 64 9. Statement of Purpose of Norfolk’s Fostering Services Annual Page 77 Review 10 . Norfolk County Council Adoption Agency Annual Review Page 109 11 . Structural developments in the education system Page 134 12 . Road Crossing Patrol Page 162 13 . Youth Support Model Task & Finish Group - Update Reports to Follow 14 . Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Reports to Follow 15 . Exclusion of the Public Page The committee is asked to consider excluding the public from the meeting under section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 for consideration of the item below on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. The committee will be presented with the conclusion (s) of the public interest test carried out by the report author and is recommended to confirm the exclusion. 16 . To confirm the Exempt minutes from the Childrens Services Page Committee meeting held on 28 June 2016. • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); • Information relating to any consultations or negotiations, or contemplated consultations or negotiations in connection with any labour relations matters arising between the Authority or a Minister... Group Meetings Conservative 9:00am Conservative Group Room, Ground Floor UK Independence Party 9:00am UKIP Group Room, Ground Floor Labour 9:00am Labour Group Room, Ground Floor Liberal Democrats 9:00am Liberal democrats Group Room, Ground Floor 4 Chris Walton Head of Democratic Services County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2DH Date Agenda Published: 05 September 2016 If you need this document in large print, audio, Braille, alternative format or in a different language please contact Customer Services on 0344 800 8020 or 0344 800 8011 (textphone) and we will do our best to help. 5 Children’s Services Committee Minutes of the Meeting Held on Tuesday 28 June 2016 10am, Edwards Room, County Hall, Norwich Present: Mr R Smith – Chair Mr A Adams Mr M Kiddle-Morris Mr R Bearman Mrs J Leggett Mr M Castle Mr J Perkins Mr J Childs Ms C Rumsby Mr P Gilmour Mr M Sands Mrs S Gurney – Vice-Chair Mr B Stone Mr B Hannah Miss J Virgo Mr J Joyce Mr A White Non-voting Parent Governor Representatives Dr K Byrne Non-Voting Co-opted Advisors Mrs A Best-White Schools Forum Rep Mr A Robinson Norfolk Governors Network Ms V Aldous Primary Education Ms C Smith Secondary Education Ms T Rainbow Special Needs Education The Chair welcomed the support worker and six young people from the Norwich Youth Advisory Board Programme for Young Commissioners who would observe the meeting. Mr R Bearman introduced the visitors to the Committee. 1 Apologies and substitutions 1.1 Apologies were received from Mrs J Chamberlin (Mrs J Leggett substituted), Mr D Crawford (Mr J Childs substituted); Ms E Corlett (Mr M Castle substituted); Mrs S Vertigan (Parent/Governor Rep), Mr J Mason (Post-16 Education Rep) and Mrs H Bates and Mr A Mash (Church Reps). 2 Minutes 2.1 The minutes of the meeting held on 10 May 2016 were agreed as an accurate record by the Committee and signed by the Chair, subject to the deletion of paragraph 11.2.7. 6 2.2 Matters arising 2.2.1 The first meeting of the Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Task and Finish Group had been held on 21 June 2016. Emma Corlett had been appointed Chair of the Group. 2.2.2 Any Member who wished to visit schools or academies to engage with Headteachers, to assess what was happening in schools and how this could be sustained or improved, could contact Flavio Vetesse, Senior Adviser in the Education Partnership Service, who would make the arrangements. 3 Declarations of Interest No declarations of interest were made. 4 Items of Urgent Business 4.1 The Chair announced that Gordon Boyd, Assistant Director Education, would be leaving Norfolk County Council towards the end of July to take up a role in Edinburgh. The Committee placed on record its thanks to Gordon for his hard work and wished him well in his new role. Chris Snudden had been appointed Interim Assistant Director, Education. 4.2 The Executive Director of Children’s Services informed the Committee that positive feedback had been received following the recent Ofsted Monitoring Inspection. Once the report had been published it would be available on the Ofsted website and a link circulated to the Committee. 4.3 The Executive Director updated the Committee on the progress with the Parker Review. The draft report had identified that there were some issues with regard to how foster carers had been treated and, although changes had been made, further work was necessary. Once the report had been checked for accuracy it would be presented to Children’s Services Committee at its meeting in September 2016. Discussions were taking place with the Norfolk Foster Care Association to ensure all the issues identified in the report were being addressed. 4.4 There would be a Celebration of Achievement event for Norfolk’s Looked After Children on Saturday 9 July, from 1pm to 4pm at St Andrews Hall in Norwich. If any Member of the Committee wished to attend this invitation only event, they could contact the Virtual School Team which would be pleased to issue an invitation. 5 Public Question Time 5.1 Details of the public question received and the response can be found at Appendix A. 7 6 Local Member Issues/Member Questions No Local Member questions were received. 7 Integrated performance and Finance Monitoring Report 2016-17. 7.1 The Committee received the report by the Executive Director of Children’s Services containing the report cards and other key performance information.