To approve and endorse the Corporate Parenting Strategy and Care Leavers covenant.

That:

(a)   the draft corporate parenting strategy 2020 – 2023 (appendix A) is approved as amended to expand upon the safe and stable life; 

(b)  Cabinet agrees to receive an annual report on Corporate Parenting to enable progress of the strategy to be monitored; and

(c)   Cabinet agrees the Care Leavers covenant (appendix B) is approved.

1.          The Cabinet does not adopt a Corporate Parenting strategy. This would make it difficult to evidence the Council’s commitment to corporate parenting or to define what difference it was aiming to achieve and to evaluate what difference it had made in improving outcomes for looked after children and care leavers.

2.          The Cabinet does not agree the Care Leavers Covenant. This would make it difficult to evidence the Council’s commitment to corporate parenting or to justify the status as a “trailblazer” local authority for the Care Leavers Covenant.