Decision details

This strategy sets out how LB Barnet will meet our sufficiency duty to looked after children and care leavers. It identifies current and projected gaps in provision and sets out our plans to address them. 

The Commissioning Director, Children and Young People, introduced the item which related to the Placements Commissioning Strategy (recently considered by the Corporate Parenting Advisory Panel).

Following consideration of the item, the Chairman moved to the recommendations, which were unanimously agreed by the Committee.

The following was therefore RESOLVED:

1.    That the Committee approved the Placements Commissioning Strategy.

2.    That the committee noted that the strategy aims to achieve the following: to better enable children and families to build their resilience, to increase the number of local placements through improving support for foster carers and to reduce the long term costs associated with residential placements.