Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration introduced a report on the proposed creation of a London Regional Adoption Agency, in response to the Department of Education’s ambition for all local authorities to be part of a regionalised service by 2020 in order to tackle the low rate at which children in care became adopted.  The project was being led by London Councils and the intention was for the new Agency to become operational in 2017/18.

The Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree, in principle, to join a London Regional Adoption Agency, as supported by London Councils and the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services; and

(ii)  Authorise the Director of Children’s Services, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration, to progress arrangements relating to the development of the Agency model.