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Terms of Reference - Corporate Parenting Board

Membership to include 3 Ex Officio Members and Ex Officio Officers

To be responsible for the Council’s role as a Corporate Parent to those children and young people who are looked after and accommodated by the local authority, that responsibility to also include:

ensuring that the education, health, and social needs of children Looked After by the Authority are met

developing effective corporate responses to fulfil the Authority’s responsibilities as a corporate parent

to implement changes to policy and practice, and inform service development in the context of corporate parenting

the dissemination of information, concerned with its responsibilities associated with corporate parenting, to all elected Members and relevant staff; and

the implementation, maintenance, and review of this Council’s ‘Corporate Parenting and Strategy’ document.