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Meeting: 08/09/2020 - Children's Scrutiny Committee (Item 185)

185 Social Work - Workforce Comparison Data pdf icon PDF 165 KB

Report of the Acting Head of Children’s Social Care (CS/20/11), attached.

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Minutes:

The Committee received the Report of the Acting Head of Children’s Services on social work recruitment and retention, which set out the national and local context regarding social worker recruitment and considered the challenges currently facing Devon. 

 

A proposal had been put forward to establish a social work career pathway in the context of offers made by neighbouring authorities, recommending that the rationale and proposals for aligning Devon Children’s Services against the national framework for career progression and the case for improving Devon’s offer to social workers, in order to stabilise and value current workforce and promote better outcomes for children and young people.  These measures would help to be able to meet the statutory obligations to children and families and would promote the development of a skilled and effective workforce.

 

The Committee welcomed the Report and agreed that these issues would form the basis for the Scrutiny Review into Social Work.

 


Meeting: 08/09/2020 - Children's Scrutiny Committee (Item 184)

184 Re-set for Children's Services pdf icon PDF 93 KB

Report of the Head of Commissioning, Children’s Services (CS/20/10), attached.

 

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Minutes:

The Committee received the Report the Head of Commissioning of Children’s Services on the re-set of Children’s Services’ priorities post Covid-19 lockdown.  International data had shown that lockdown had had a significant and harmful impact on the most vulnerable children, with children who already lived with parental domestic abuse, drug and alcohol harm and mental ill health being worst affected, with the most life-threatening risk for infants.

 

A presentation was also given on the Children and Young People’s Plan Reset for 2020 to 2021.

 

Members’ questions and Officer responses included:

 

·         Focus was on the most vulnerable children, who had lost four months of education, and the re-set would take this forward;

·         Careers South West, in partnership with schools and colleges, were working to ensure everyone had access to targeted support and information;

·         The Government had announced a range of programmes to ensure young people could return to work and training;

·         A detailed action plan was being prepared responding to all local data; and

·         The impact of furlough on the County where most furlough was seen in the tourism and hospitality industries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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