Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Community Parenting Strategy 2025
The committee was content with the strategy. It asked for an information report on feedback from the consultation on the redesign of Children's Services. It also recommended using percentages to show trends, noting how many Children Looked After come from outside Newport, adding baseline numbers and percentages to the outcomes, benchmarking against best practice, having more board members with lived care experience, and monitoring the strategy annually.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Community Parenting Strategy for children looked after
Cabinet noted the draft Community Parenting Strategy and supported its implementation and adoption by the Council.
Items are linked when their titles share most of their words and they fall within 18 months of each other. Councils don't number reports across meetings, so a few links may be wrong, and a step may be missing if its title changed a lot. Each step links to the meeting, where the council's own papers are.