Looked After Children (CYP2 )
Core Offer
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This core offer includes services that the council is legally obliged to provide. The link below provides detailed information about what is included.
Related FAQs
The Council’s Children’s Services has already failed an Ofsted report – won’t cutting the budget make things worse?
We are spreading reductions over time to work with partners on new services. We now have an improvement plan in place to tackle the problems highlighted by Oftsed, which is getting us back on track, and ensures that all our services contribute to giving all children and young people in Darlington the best start in life.
Our proposals aim to develop a new service that combines early help with other support, which will include Children’s Centre delivery, early help and Troubled Families. Working with partners we are changing our approach, building on what works to target support at those children and families in greatest need. We are also strengthening our area social work teams and management in response to the Ofsted improvement plan.
Your Say
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Core CYP2 (Looked After Children) Q: There is no provision in the budget for preventative measures – it is very short-sighted. Other local authorities are ploughing money into preventative services such as the looked after children strategy because one looked after child costs £10,000s a year. One child in a specialist place can cost £5k a week so it does not make good financial sense to pull all the money out of mental health, children’s centres etc. What you are going to have is more children coming into care, more people homeless which is going to cost the council more in the longer term. I do know what happens when you don’t invest in preventative services but we are between a rock and a hard place. A: The position we are in is absolute madness. We are setting up problems for the future but we have the budget that we have and we want to have a conversation about how can we make that go as far as we can. We have never said we have all the right answers, we have said we will have a conversation to see if there is a better way of doing it. No other council is holding anything like this event but I think it gets people involved and that’s what is needed. We are not investing in the future and we are going to pay for it down the line but the council is where it’s at – what can we do? What would you suggest? |
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