Issue - meetings

Children and Learning - Performance

Meeting: 11/02/2021 - Children and Families Scrutiny Panel (Item 33)

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Report of the Director, Legal and Business Operations, providing an overview of performance across Children and Learning Services since November 2020.

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Minutes:

The Panel received the report of the Director, Legal and Governance which provided an overview of performance across Children and Families Services since November 2020.

 

Robert Henderson, Executive Director Wellbeing (Children and Learning), Southampton City Council; Phil Bullingham, Head of Service: Children’s Social Care, Southampton City Council; and, Julian Watkins, Head of Service: Safeguarding, Southampton City Council were present and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the Panel. 

 

In discussions with the officers, the Panel noted the following:

  • There had been high demand pressures for teams that supported Looked After Children.
  • A Principle Social Worker had been appointed to engage the workforce in practice development, to share and promote best practice and to develop and maintain relationships with Social Workers from other authorities in the region.