Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the Adoption Agency’s Annual Report, which covered adoption performance over the last year and provided an update on the work of the team.

This report also included information about the Adoption Partnership South East, the newly formed Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) with Kent County Council and the London Borough of Bexley. The report noted that future annual reports on the work around adoption would be produced by the Head of the Adoption Partnership South East. 

The annual report was considered by the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 1 December 2020, details of which were set out at section 9 of the report.

Reasons:

Statutory guidance requires adoption agencies to report on adoption agency activity in the last year.