Issue details

Looked After Children Sufficiency Strategy 2022 - 2025

The Cabinet will be asked to approve the Barking and Dagenham Sufficiency Strategy for Looked After Children 2022-2025 which sets out how the Council, as Corporate Parent, will meet its statutory Sufficiency Duty under the Children Act 1989 to secure, as far as reasonably practicable, sufficient accommodation within the area to meet the needs of children who the Council looks after.

Decision type: Key

Decision status: Abandoned

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Notice of proposed decision first published: 14/11/2022

Issue Category: Community;

Decision due: 20 Feb 2023 by Cabinet

Lead member: Children's Social Care & Disabilities Portfolio

Lead director: Strategic Director, Children & Adults

Department: Children and Adults

Contact: Valerie Tomlinson, Lead Commissioner, Children's Care & Support Email: valerie.tomlinson@lbbd.gov.uk Tel: 020 8227 3549.