Decision details

(Councillors Adams, Leaver, Sanders and Whitton attended in accordance with Standing Order 25(2) and spoke to this item).

The Cabinet noted that the Children’s Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 11 November 2024 had RESOLVED that the Scrutiny Committee (a) endorses the report and recommendations and commends the report and recommendations to Cabinet; and (b) requests that Cabinet acts against the recommendations and that an update on the progress is brought back to the Committee in March.

The Task Group Report could be viewed at Fostering Task Group - Children's Scrutiny Committee.

The Cabinet then considered a proposed response to each of the recommendations, after careful review, as outlined in section 4 of the Report.

Recommendations 1, 4, 5c, 5d, 6, 9 and 10 were agreed, recommendations 2, 3, 5b and 7 were partially agreed and recommendations 5a and 8 were not agreed, with the rationale for each explained in the Report.  

It was MOVED by Councillor Leadbetter, SECONDED by Councillor McInnes    and

RESOLVED that the Cabinet response to the recommendations of the Children Scrutiny Fostering Task Group Report be approved.