Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
The Group Director, Community & Children’s Services presented the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board Annual plan to the Cabinet, reminding Members of the statutory responsibility by the Board to publish an Annual Plan each year, which sets out its priorities for the coming year.
Members were advised that the Board had acknowledged the difficulties and challenges partner agencies had faced over the past year, with the Group Director advising that this year’s Annual Plan recognised those challenges and aimed to learn the lessons from a year of unprecedented demands on services.
Members were provided with an overview of the plan and advised that a detailed work plan for the Board and its subgroups would sit underneath the Annual Plan. The work plan would include the actions required to achieve the improvements required, who is responsible, timescales and measures of success. The progress of the work plan would be monitored and reviewed on a quarterly basis and would form the basis of the Annual Report for 2021/2022.
The Cabinet Member for Adult Community & Welsh Language thanked the Board for the plan before Members and the work undertaken during the pandemic. The Cabinet Member commented that he was confident of the Board continuing to deliver on behalf of the residents of Cwm Taf Morgannwg in accordance with the new plan, which he noted was ambitious yet realistic.
The cabinet Member for Children & Young People reiterated her thanks and referenced the achievable outcomes within the plan and the effective partnership arrangements in place to help deliver the plan going forward.
Following discussion’s it was RESOLVED to:
1. To note and endorse the content of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board Annual Plan for 2021/22.
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Publication date: 20/07/2021
Date of decision: 20/07/2021
Decided at meeting: 20/07/2021 - Cabinet
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