Issue - meetings

To receive a presentation from the Director of Children’s Services providing an overview of the outcomes of the Care Leavers Peer Challenge.

The Children and Families Advisory Panel received a presentation from the Director of Children’s Services providing an overview of the outcomes of the Care Leavers Peer Challenge.

The Care Leavers Peer Challenge involved four senior managers from other local authorities in the South East assessing Hampshire’s Care Leavers service as a ’critical friend’. The key areas of consideration included consistency across the service, quality assurance and if the core offer was embedded within the service.

The Panel heard that the strengths identified included the investment in front line staff, personal assistants and hybrid devices. It was also noted that the quality assurance framework is well embedded and ‘The Hampshire Approach’ is known throughout the service

The Panel found that areas for consideration included whether a more innovative approach was possible, if responses to Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers could be developed and in outcomes could be improved for care leavers outside of Hampshire.

Resolved: That the Children and Families Advisory Panel note the outcomes of the Care Leavers Peer Challenge.