Agenda and minutes

Corporate Parenting Board - Thursday, 6th September, 2012 6.00 pm

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Venue: Oak Room, Woodlands Conferencing Centre, Southport Road, Chorley, PR7 1QR

Contact: Mark Elliott Tel: (01772) 531657, Email: mark.elliott@lancashire.gov.uk

Note: Buffet served from 5.00pm

Items
No.	Item
47.	Introduction and Apologies View the background to item 47. To note who is attending and any apologies for absence. Minutes: Introductions around the room were made and apologies were noted from County Councillors Kay and Taylor and Nicola Bamford, Mark Hudson, Ismail Karolia and Cath Randall.
48.	Notes of the Meetings held on 12 June and 26 July 2012 PDF 3 MB View the background to item 48. View the decision for item 48. To agree for accuracy the notes of the meetings. Additional documents: Minutes 26/07/2012 , item 48. PDF 149 KB Minutes: The notes of the meetings held on 12 June and 26 July 2012 were agreed as an accurate record.
49.	Matters Arising from the Notes of the Meeting held on 12 June and 26 July 2012 (10 mins) View the background to item 49. View the decision for item 49. To receive an update from the matters arising from the notes of the meetings. Minutes: There were no matters arising from the previous meetings.
50.	What our Elected Members Have Been Doing (10 mins) View the background to item 50. View the decision for item 50. County Councillor Tony Winder To note feedback from work undertaken by the Chair of the Board and our Elected Members including Members' visits. Minutes: CC Winder updated the Board on the various meetings, visits and actions he had been involved in as the Chair of the Board. CC Evans told the Board of the activities she carried out with a young person from The Willows over a week recently. The activities included a visit to a hospital as the young person was intending to pursue a career in the health service. The Board was also told that the young person was to undertake a six month work placement at Darian House, Chorley.
51.	CoPE (Certificate of Personal Effectiveness) (15 mins) View the background to item 51. View the decision for item 51. Gwen Monk, Mark Robson and Young People To receive a presentation on the CoPE scheme which is a tool used to engage young people in accessing education as a positive thing. Minutes: The Board received a great presentation from young people involved in the CoPE programme. The Presentation is available on the Corporate Parenting Board's webpages. The Young Person's Ambassador led the thanks to the young people for being such an inspiration in undertaking this work.
52.	LINX (Lancashire's Children in Care Council) (15 mins) View the background to item 52. View the decision for item 52. Young People and Laura Goodfellow To receive feedback on the work our young people have been doing. Minutes: The young people from LINX presented to the Board details of the work they had been undertaking in the area groups, a copy of the presentation is available on the Corporate Parenting Board webpages. The young people asked the Board to agree to collate an information pack for Care Leavers. The young people also raised at this point the changes they would wish to see in respect of the current way grant applications are considered. They would particularly like to move to a similar way to how the young people service consider grants, maybe even have a Dragons Den approach! The Chair on behalf of the Board agreed to consider this at the de-briefing meeting on 1 October and to agree the new process with the young people.
53.	Assisted Boarding Conference (5 mins) View the background to item 53. View the decision for item 53. Sue Parr To receive feedback from the conference. Minutes: The Board receive d an update on this area from Sue Parr. The Board noted that it is hoped that with Lancashire and Cumbria working together between two to four young people can be supported with being a boarder. It was hoped to identify two young people within the next month. In response to questions it was noted that work was on-going as to the definition of children on the edge of care and that the likely age of the young people to be identified would be of secondary school age ie 11 and older.
54.	Government's Adoption Plan (5 mins) PDF 47 KB View item 54. as DOCX 24 KB View the background to item 54. View the decision for item 54. Anne-Marie Ranson To note the attached briefing note on the Government's Adoption Action Plan and Lancashire's response to it. Minutes: Anne-Marie Ranson introduced the report circulated with the agenda on this important area of work. In response to a number of queries Anne-Marie agreed to meet David Galt outside the meeting to discuss in more detail.
55.	Inspection Framework (30 mins) View the background to item 55. View the decision for item 55. Tony Morrissey To work in groups to discuss the Inspection Framework. Minutes: Tony Morrissey led the Board through a number of questions which are part of the current consultation, a copy of the presentation is available on the Corporate Parenting Board webpages. The Board, in groups, looked at the various questions and produced responses on flipcharts. It was agreed that the responses would form the basis of a response, which would be agreed by CC Winder and Louise Taylor on behalf of the Board.
56.	Performance Indicators (5 mins) PDF 52 KB View item 56. as DOC 62 KB View the background to item 56. View the decision for item 56. Debbie Duffell To note Lancashire's performance indicators. Additional documents: Lancashire CLA Information , item 56. PDF 101 KB View as DOCX (56./2) 28 KB Minutes: The Board considered a set of figures relating to performance against agreed priorities areas. There were a number of issues raised and the Board felt it would be helpful to have available a more detailed analysis behind the figures. Officers agreed to do this for future reports.
57.	Feedback from the Young People's Corporate Parenting Board held on 26 July 2012 (10 mins) View the background to item 57. View the decision for item 57. Young People and Laura Goodfellow To receive feedback from the young people on how they felt the meeting on 26 July 2012 had gone and how they would like to see future meetings progressing and what they would do differently. Minutes: The Board was told by the young people that communication with young people is a key priority and that they would like the Board to look at various ways of communicating with young people. It was agreed that this be discussed at the de-briefing on 1 October and a way of the Board communicating with young people be presented to the meeting in December.
58.	Action Plan (5 mins) View the background to item 58. View the decision for item 58. CC Winder/Louise Taylor To note the priorities for 2013. Minutes: The action plan would be brought to the December meeting taking into consideration the priorities identified at the conference held earlier today, and such initiatives as CoPE, Friends 4U, communication and boarding provision.
59.	What's Changed Tool (5 mins) View the background to item 59. View the decision for item 59. Young People To note the tool and as a Board agree to its use for future meetings. Minutes: It was agreed that the Board would look to use the What's Changed Tool together with the action plan from each future meeting.
60.	Grant Funding Applications Process (5 mins) View the background to item 60. View the decision for item 60. Young People and Laura Goodfellow To look at ways of improving the process and involving young people in the decision making of the applications. Minutes: It was noted that the Board had discussed this as part of the LINX item earlier in the agenda.
61.	Date and Time of Next Meeting View the background to item 61. Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 6.00pm in Cabinet Room 'C', County Hall, Preston, PR1 8RJ. Minutes: The Board noted that the next meeting was scheduled to be held on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 6.00pm at County Hall, Preston. The Board was informed that this date was subject to change.
62.	Grant Funding Applications PDF 85 KB View the background to item 62. View the decision for item 62. To note the document attached. Minutes: The current position regarding applications was noted. The Chair took the opportunity to thank Maggie Atkinson for coming to both the conference and the meeting of the Board. Maggie Atkinson thanked Lancashire for the genius of having the confidence to host the conference and that a lot of "light bulb moments" were clearly seen during the conference.