THAT (i) Cabinet addresses the issue of the appointment of a Cabinet Member for Children’s Services at its meeting on 21st October, 2004 when it has available the report of the Constitutional Review Working Group;

            (ii) Cabinet at that meeting gives consideration to the designation of an interim appointment pending the formal approval of the change to the Constitution by Council at the November Council meeting;

(iii)Cabinet agrees to proceed to the appointment of an interim Director of Children’s Services on the basis of a restricted advertisement to eligible internal candidates; and

(iv)      the Chief Executive and Head of Human Resources be authorised to take the necessary steps to advise the Director of Education, the Director of Social Care and Strategic Housing and the Acting Director of Social Care and Strategic Housing of the potential impact of those changes on their existing contracts with the Council