Ask for / Gofynnwch am : Mr A Rees

E-mail / E-bost: Andrew.rees@bridgend.gov.uk

Direct fax / Deialu Ffacs: (01656) 657899

Our Ref / Ein cyf: AR

Your Ref / Eich cyf:

Date / Dyddiad: 18 October 2012

Dear Councillor,

CORPORATE PARENTING CABINET COMMITTEE

A meeting of the Corporate Parenting Cabinet Committee will be held in Committee Rooms 1/2/3, Civic Offices, Angel Street, Bridgend on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 2.00pm.

AGENDA

1.

To receive apologies for absence (to include reasons, where appropriate) from Members/Officers.

2.

To receive declarations of personal and prejudicial interest (if any) from Members/Officers in accordance with the provisions of the Members’ Code of Conduct adopted by Council from

1 September 2008.

3.

To receive for approval the minutes of the meeting of the Corporate Parenting Cabinet Committee held on 23 July 2012.

4.

Officer’s Reports

Corporate Director - Children

(a)

BCBC Short Breaks Statement Appendix 1 Appendix 2

(b)

Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales’s Inspection (CSSIW) Report on the Arrangements for Looked After Children and Young People in Bridgend County Borough Council.

Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3

(c)

Emerging findings from the Regional Advocacy Commissioning Project strategic needs assessment in relation to the authority’s statutory duties.

(d)

The Looked After Children Project

(e)

The Residential Care Redesign Project

Appendix 1 Appendix 2

(f)

Informal Forward Work Programme – October 2012 to January 2013

Appendix

5.

To consider any other item(s) of business in respect of which notice has been given in accordance with Part 4 (paragraph 4) of the Council Procedure Rules and which the person presiding at the meeting is of the opinion should by reason of special circumstances be transacted at the meeting as a matter of urgency.

6.

The minutes relating to the following item are not for publication as they contain exempt information as defined in Paragraph 12 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information)(Variation)(Wales) Order 2007.

If following the application of the public interest test that the Panel resolves pursuant to the Act to consider this item in private, the public will be excluded from the meeting during such consideration.

7.

To receive for approval the confidential minutes of the meeting of the Corporate Parenting Cabinet Committee held on 23 July 2012.

Councillors

H J David*

M Gregory

L C Morgan

M E J Nott

D Sage

P J White

Councillors

E Dodd

D M Hughes

R D Jenkins

H Townsend

D B F White

H Anthony

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Corporate Director - Children

S Brindle

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Corporate Director - Wellbeing

L Fradd

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Corporate Director - Communities

C Turner

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Head of Safeguarding and Family Support

R Landy

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Head of Learning

M Shepherd

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Head of Healthy Living

S Pryce

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Head of Regeneration and Development

S Kingsbury

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Head of Human Resources