Decision details

The Director of Children's Services agreed to the following:
* To continue the work developed during the child-minding pilot and mainstream the service across the city.
* To expand the work of the support care fostering scheme and to expand this together with the child-minding scheme across the city.
* The fostering service will provide governance for the service, with a multi-agency steering group to be established to review progress, monitor outputs and prepare reports.
* To increase staffing in the fostering service with one supervising social work post to support the expansion of the support care and child-minding project across the city.
* Additional child-minders and foster carers to be recruited to form a city-wide provision of child-minders and support care foster carers.