Decision details

The Service Director, Children’s Services provided the Cabinet with the National Adoption Service for Wales Annual Report, which is required to be brought before Cabinet as part of Regulation 22 of the Local Authority Adoption Service (Wales) Regulations 2007 and Section 15(c) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Joint Adoption Regulations)(Wales) Directions 2015.

Members were referred to Appendix 1 of the report, where the Annual Report for 2018-19 was detailed. They learned that there had been an increase in the number of children placed for adoption and that the recruitment of parents remained a challenge. The officer went on to speak of the £2.3M investment from Welsh Government, which had been established to support the priorities and potentially improve the performance.  

The Cabinet RESOLVED:

1.    To note the content of the report.