Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Children’s Services providing the framework for producing the 2009 Children and Young People’s Plan.

The Director of Children’s Services submitted a report providing an update on the key areas of progress made across children’s services and the Children’s Trust arrangements in Leeds, providing the wider context for a number of significant children’s services policy developments and outlining the process and progress of the review of Leeds’ Children and Young People’s Plan in preparation for the production of a new Plan for 2009 and beyond.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the report be noted and received as part of the background to other key children’s services reports in the coming months.

(b)  That the government’s current consultation on children’s trust arrangements and Leeds’ position in relation to this be noted.

(c)  That the process for consulting on and developing the Children and Young People’s Plan for 2009 be noted and endorsed.

(d)  That the issue of locality working in respect of children’s services arrangements be specifically addressed as part of the future Children and Young People’s Plan review.