Minutes:
RESOLVED:
1. That the presentation be received and the following comments made by committee be incorporated and considered as part of the strategy:
· Strategic priorities – 9. All young people leave care when they are ready and the ideal for life after care
· Add young people have had a say and their voice has been heard
· Add to strategic priorities that foster and adoptive carers should feel well supported
· Implications of benefit and welfare changes for young people captured
· Include more health related success measures
· Add resilience for care leavers and narrowing gap between looked after children and other children
· Under strategic priorities, add under point 1 words to the effect that where neglect or safeguarding issues child or young person will be removed without hesitation
· Set out joint working with other areas (for example, housing, education and health) to reinforce the continued need for this to happen
· Practical participation with social media
· Relationships – young people have relationships they feel positive about
· Reducing crisis points (exclusion, visits to accident and emergency etc)
· Reference to disability issues in strategy
· Success, point 10 – change ‘more’ to ‘all’
· “What children and young people tell us is important to them” middle box, conversation around where young people and children feel are not getting support/help
· Statement young person feel secure in housing
· Looked after children – all services shaped for this group
· Request that strategy to go to cabinet, Speakerbox and corporate parenting committee
· Updated version of the strategy to be emailed to committee when complete.
2. All further comments on the strategy to be emailed to elaine.gunn@southwark.gov.uk