Issue - meetings

Monitoring Scrutiny Recommendations

Meeting: 24/01/2019 - Children and Families Scrutiny Panel (Item 27)

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Report of the Director, Legal and Governance enabling the Panel to monitor and track progress on recommendations made at previous meetings.

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Minutes:

The Panel received and noted the report of the Director, Legal and Governance that enabled the Panel to monitor and track progress on recommendations made at previous meetings.

 

The Panel noted the following:

·  That Social Finance were unable to attend the meeting to provide a demonstration of the new app developed to support Care Leavers.

·  That an invitation to the 2019 Southampton Care Leaver Awards would be given to members of the Children and Families Scrutiny Panel.

·  That case studies highlighting positive examples where Looked After Children have returned to their parents had been circulated.

·  That consideration had been given to how elected members could be utilised to support, mentor and advise Care Leavers.  Research had looked at good examples in other Local Authorities, which identified that for members, leaders and managers within the council to provide mentoring for young people and Care Leavers, a system to match mentors in terms of the skill set and interests with Looked After Children and Care Leavers would require a CV to enable the matching process.  It was suggested that Mentoring is offered to young people when they are in Year 10 so that the offer is embedded when the young person becomes at risk of not being in Education, Employment or Training, and that the offer could be extended to local business who are interested in sponsoring a young person in care.

 

RESOLVED

1)  That Social Finance would be invited to provide a demonstration of the new app developed to support Care Leavers at the meeting in March 2019.