Working Together working groups

We will fund the appointment of a senior executive who will work closely with chief executives and senior officials within each local authority. He/she will discuss what is being done to improve educational outcomes for looked after children and young people and care leavers with the relevant corporate parents and will provide reports twice a year to Cabinet.

We will work together with local authorities to identify measures which could be put in place to improve the effectiveness of their corporate parent role, and we will write to them in the first instance to alert them to this work.

We will work together with COSLA and the Improvement Service to include corporate parenting in the induction programme for new elected members.

We will ensure that progress on improving the educational outcomes of looked after children and young people is one of the key components of the outcome agreements for children’s services to be tested with pathfinder local children’s services partnerships.

We will inform all local authorities, relevant educational establishments and care providers that they must be able to demonstrate in the course of their inspection cycles that they actively meet the educational needs of all looked after children and young people for whom they have responsibility.