To approve the executive response to the recommendation from the task and finish group review concerning child exploitation.  The task and finish group review considered the Herefordshire approach to child exploitation and made ten recommendations.

That:

(a)       The response to the children and young people’s scrutiny committee’s recommendations regarding the task and finish group review concerning child exploitation, as attached at appendix 1 are approved.

1.         None proposed; it is a statutory requirement to provide a response to recommendations made by the children and young people’s scrutiny committee.  It is open to the executive to accept, partially accept or reject a recommendation from scrutiny committee, should a recommendation not be accepted an explanation should be provided.