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Confirmation of Convener Minutes: Councillor Paxton Hood-Williams was confirmed as Convener of the Child and Family Services Panel for 2023-24. |
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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Minutes: No disclosures of interest were received. |
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Prohibition of Whipped Votes and Declaration of Party Whips Minutes: No declarations were made. |
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Minutes of Previous Meeting(s) PDF 330 KB To receive the minutes of the previous meeting(s) and agree as an accurate record. Additional documents:
Minutes: Panel agreed the minutes of the meeting on 7 March 2023 as an accurate record of the meeting |
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Public Question Time Questions must be submitted in writing, no later than noon on the working day prior to the meeting. Questions must relate to items on the agenda. Questions will be dealt with in a 10-minute period. Minutes: No questions were received. |
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Child and Family Complaints Annual Report 2021-22 PDF 148 KB Sarah Lackenby, Head of Digital and Customer Services Additional documents:
Minutes: Louise Gibbard, Cabinet Member for Care
Services and Sarah Lackenby, Head of Digital and Customer Services attended to present
the Report for 2021-22 stating the Service takes complaints very seriously and
they are used as learning opportunities to inform good practice going
forward. Panel informed the impact of covid was still
being felt with issues to do with staff pressures and recruitment, sickness and
increasing complexity of cases being dealt with. Despite this there was a
reduction in stage one complaints in Child and Family Services and not many
progressing to stage two. Also, the Service received 100 compliments. Panel
felt this was positive. |
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Invited to attend: Louise Gibbard, Cabinet Member – Care Services David Howes, Director of Social Services Julie Davies, Head of Child and
Family Services Minutes: Louise Gibbard, Cabinet Member for Care Services attended to brief the Panel on this issue and summarised activity undertaken and progress made. Discussion Points: · Panel felt report was comprehensive and complete. ·
Panel stated that first people to see the
situation of families is health workers, so it is important to keep driving the
message home with them that if they see any problems, they should raise them as
soon as possible as this is the earliest intervention and then schools have a
role to play. Cabinet Member feels have very
good relationship with Health and a lot of that work goes on in early help
hubs. ·
Panel reasonably happy with the way department
is going. Panel will be looking at
performance reports very carefully and will be awaiting a report from the
Corporate Parenting Board this municipal year. |
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Panel Review of the Year 2022-23 PDF 219 KB Minutes: Panel Members
reviewed the year 2022/23 on the Child and Family Services Panel and the
Convener made the following comments: · October was introductory meeting and looked
at role of the Panel. No new members on
the Panel last year. Need to have a few
more members. Cabinet Member requested to ask members of her party if
interested in joining. · In November looked at Residential Care and
will want to come back to that this year. · December saw first performance monitoring
report from new Welsh Community Care Information System (WCCIS) and Panel
pleased to see development of this. Also
looked at regional safeguarding, Panel had some concerns in terms of regional
safeguarding as opposed to what used to have in Swansea. · In January looked at Child and Adolescent
Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Panel was able to see what was going on and
progress being made. · February was a joint meeting with Adult
Services Panel to look at the budget.
Panel was relatively pleased that the budget had increased. Panel is
interested to see how commissioning reviews proceed and need to see timetable
for this and have a report on this to the Panel in the near future. · In March looked at Support for Carers, in
conjunction with Adult Services. Also looked at Youth Offending Service which
is something Panel will need to continue to look at. · Work Programme for 2023-24 will be drafted
and circulated to Members. Final version
to be agreed at next meeting on 20 June 2023. |