Decision details

Stephen Kitchman, Director for Social Care, introduced the report and explained that recent changes to care proceedings had significantly reduced the need for expert witnesses, resulting in the process become much shorter. This meant that there was reduced need for the Meliot Road Family Assessment Centre in its current format, demand for supervised contact of children with significant family members was ongoing and as such it was proposed that this would be the primary focus of the Meliot Centre moving forward.

RESOLVED:

1) that the report be noted.

2) that the Committee agree to review the full savings report to Mayor and Cabinet at the 11 January 2017 Select Committee meeting.