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Annual Adoption Report

Meeting: 07/03/2023 - Cabinet (Item 6)

6 Adoption Partnership South East, Regional Adoption Agency, Annual Report 2022 pdf icon PDF 137 KB

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Background:

 

This Regional Adoption Agency, comprising of the London Borough of Bexley, Kent County Council and Medway Council was formed in September 2020.  Its Annual Report, attached at Annex A to the report, provided information and an overview of the service, performance set against government targets and service and practice development for the period November 2021 – October 2022.

 

The report had previously been considered by the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 5 January 2023 and its comments were set out in section 4 of the report.

 

Decision

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Decision:

 

 

The Cabinet noted the comments of the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee set out at section 4 of the report.

 

The Cabinet noted the Annual report 2022, as set out at Annex A.

 

Reasons:

 

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