Agenda item

5.55pm – 6.05pm

RESOLVED:

1.  That the continued provision of a specialist unaccompanied minors over the last seven years be approved.

2.  That the considerable expertise of the unaccompanied minors team being utilised by other parts of children’s services responsible for supporting families with no recourse to public funds or where children have been subject to trafficking be supported.

3.  That the head of services for children in care and the principle lawyer for children’s service report back on the feasibility and practicalities of the reference of minors to other boroughs legal teams (to utilise legal experience from other authorities on an independent basis).