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.