Issue - meetings

Background:

This report requested the Cabinet to approve Medway’s Sufficiency Strategy 2023-2025 – ‘A place called home’. The Strategy detailed how Medway Council as the corporate parent would provide and commission the right care and support for Children in our Care (CiC) and care experienced young people that would best meet their needs. Central to enabling this was provision of enough places that children could call home, with the right love, care and support wrapped around them.

The report had previously been considered by the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 2 March 2023 and its comments were set out at section 6 of the report.

A Diversity Impact Assessment had been undertaken in relation to the Sufficiency Strategy. This was attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

Reasons:

Approval of the Sufficiency Strategy ensures the Local Authority is fulfilling its duty to secure, as far as reasonably practicable, sufficient accommodation and support within their local area which meets the needs of children and young people that the local authority is looking after, and those who have recently left care at the age 18.