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RESOLVED that the report be noted.

Early Help Support Services Review and Permission

The Chair, of the Panel, Councillor Bill Brown, announced that the meeting was in “closed” session. 

The meeting noted that the Chair had received a request for the Panel to consider a decision taken by the Mayor and Cabinet on 20 November 2019 in relation to “Early Help Support Services Review and Permission”. 

The Chair stated that Councillor Chris Barnham, Cabinet Member for School Performance and Children’s Services was in attendance, together with the Director of Joint Commissioning & Early Help, and the Service Manager (Children & Young People Joint Commissioning.

Councillor Chris Barnham advised the Panel that the current review on ‘early help’ was necessary to ensure efficiency in service delivery.  The Cabinet Member stated that it be helpful to the Panel if Officers set the context of the proposals upon which the decision by the Mayor and Cabinet was based. 

The Panel received a presentation by Officers about the proposals considered by the Mayor and Cabinet prior to the decision on “Early Help Support Services Review and Permission”.   The Officers’ presentation and summary notes are attached to these Minutes as an Annex, the details of which can be accessed by virtue of paragraph(s) 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

Then meeting closed at 7.47pm.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.