Issue - meetings

Cabinet considered a report presenting a draft Corporate Parenting Strategy 2018 - 2022, which set out how the county council intends to fulfil its corporate parenting responsibilities to all children in its care and care leavers, putting them at the centre of improvements in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services. The strategy was developed in partnership with the Corporate Parenting Board. Cabinet also considered Lancashire's Promises to Children in Care and Care Leavers which informed the core principles of the Corporate Parenting Strategy.

Cabinet expressed thanks to LINX and the Care Leavers Forum, as well as members of the Corporate Parenting Board, for helping to develop the strategy.

Resolved: That

  i.  the draft Corporate Parenting Strategy 2018 - 2022 and Promises to Children in Care and Care Leavers, as set out in the report, be approved.

  ii.  the Executive Director of Education and Children's Services, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Schools, be authorised to approve the final version of the Corporate Parenting Strategy and Promises to Children in Care and Care Leavers.