Decision details

Adoption report, adoption service statement of purpose and children's guide to adoption

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To review the effectiveness of the adoption service.

To approve the adoption service statement of purpose and children’s guide to adoption. 

Decision:

 

THAT:

(a)        the performance of the adoption service as outlined at appendices a and b to this report be reviewed, any risks to achievement of objectives noted and relevant mitigating actions approved ;

(b)       the statement of purpose attached at appendix c to this report be approved; and

(c)        the children’s guide to adoption attached at appendix d to this report be approved.

 

Reasons for the decision:

The NMS are issued by the Secretary of State under sections 23 and 49 of the Care Standards Act 2000 and are issued for use by Ofsted who take them into account in their inspections.

 

Alternative options considered:

Under the National Minimum Standards for Adoption 2014 (NMS), cabinet should receive updates on the management, outcomes and financial state of the adoption service; it is open to cabinet to identify additional or alternative actions to improve performance but in doing so regard must be had to the resource implications of additional actions.

 

Contact: Paul Meredith Email: pmeredith@herefordshire.gov.uk.

Publication date: 21/01/2016

Date of decision: 21/01/2016

Effective from: 27/01/2016