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Annual Report - Fostering Service

Meeting: 05/02/2019 - Cabinet (Item 17)

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Background:

 

This report provided details of the work completed by the Medway Council Fostering Service over the last year. It also set out how the in-house Fostering Service had met the needs of Medway’s Looked After Children and established the work planned for the following year.

 

The report covered fully the service and its development in 2017/18, and provided a number of highlights, as set out in paragraph 3.1 of the report.

 

The Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered this report on 10 January 2019 and had recommended it to the Cabinet.

 

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Decision:

 

The Cabinet noted the Fostering Service Annual Report 2017-18, as set out at Appendix 1 of the report.

 

Reasons:

 

The National Minimum Standards for Fostering (2011) require that Fostering Agencies report the activity of the fostering service to its governing bodies.