Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the key findings from the Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) and how partners, namely the Council, NHS Medway CCG, Kent Police, Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company, National Probation Service (South East and Eastern) and Medway Local Safeguarding Children Board had responded to the report. The JTAI assessed how effectively agencies were working together in their local area to help and protect children.

The report stated that the inspection had taken place shortly after the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) which had been established to ensure that key partner agencies would be able to work even closer together to make sure vulnerable children and young people would receive the right support at the right time.

The report stated that the inspection had highlighted key strengths of the partnership as well as areas for improvement and that a written statement of action and a response action plan had been produced in response to the inspection, as set out in Appendices 2 to 3 to the report. 

The Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered this report on 4 December 2018 and its comments were set out in section 6 of the report.

Reasons:

To formally notify the Cabinet of the outcome of the inspection together with the Council’s Action Plan in response to the inspection’s findings.