Issue - meetings

Cabinet received a report that proposed to increase the provision to support children to remain at home with support; to establish 2 reception units enabling better assessments of children in crisis, and to reconfigure the residential provision to enable Lancashire to care for more children and young people within the county boundary.

It was noted that this report had been originally published in Part II of the agenda, but had since been revised and re-published in Part I of the agenda.

Resolved: That;

  i.  The proposals to increase provision to support children and young people to remain at home, with support be agreed;

  ii.  The establishment of two reception units, enabling better assessments of children in crisis be agreed; and

  iii.  The reconfiguration of the offer to create additional capacity for complex children and young people enabling Lancashire to care for children and young people within the County be agreed.