Councillors to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests they may have in relation to the items for consideration.

Children’s Safeguarding Panel – 10 September 2013
Children’s Trust Partnership Board – 17 July 2013

Petitions submitted pursuant to Standing Order 36 in relation to matters falling within the Committee’s Powers & Duties which have been received by Head of Legal & Democratic Services no later than four clear working days before the meeting.

Questions submitted pursuant to Standing Order 36 in relation to matters falling within the Committee’s Powers & Duties which have been submitted in writing and received by the Head of Legal & Democratic Services no later than four clear working days before the meeting.

To consider any requests received by the Monitoring Officer pursuant to Standing Order 42, for consideration of matters falling within the Committee’s Powers & Duties which have been the subject of Decision Book reports.

A presentation by staff and students from University Technical College Reading.

A report updating the Committee on the formerly Arthur Clark Care Home and the Albert Road Day Centre in Caversham and recommending the Committee agrees proposals about the future of this site and the site formerly used as the Alice Burrows Care Home in Southcote.

A report providing the Committee with an update on progress following the Committee’s resolutions in July 2013 regarding the modernisation of Day Care Services for older people.

A report describing the main impact of the White Paper, Caring for our Future, and the draft Care and Support Bill, published in July 2012; and the policy statement on Care and Support Funding Reform, presented to Parliament on 11 February 2013, and setting out the implications for Reading based on empirical data and modelling.

A report covering the wider view of school performance as assessed by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) through their national programme of inspection.

A report setting out a range of building options and informing the Committee of estimated budgetary costs.

A report providing the Committee with an update following on from the report that was submitted to the last meeting of the Committee in July 2013 after the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), Children’s Services and Skills, Child Protection Inspection held in March 2013 and highlighting the progress being made in the action plan developed at the time.

A report providing the Committee with an update on the progress being made in developing the key themes in the implementation of the Next Generation Children’s Services Programme.

A report highlighting the new Children’s Social Care Quality Assurance Framework being introduced across the service and its associated new set of practice standards that will be used to benchmark the quality of practice.

A report providing the Committee with information on the Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education - Children’s Services and Skills) Inspection Report about the Council’s Fostering Agency.

A report asking the Committee to note the work underway to establish a shared pan Berkshire adoption service under a joint arrangement for agencies to work together in providing recruitment, preparation, training, assessment and supervision of adopters.

A report providing the Committee with details of the consultation completed on the draft Early Help Strategy and presenting the final version of the Strategy for endorsement and outlining the planned next steps to implement the actions identified in the Strategy, including the development of a Delivery Plan that will set out a realistic level of activity matched to reducing resource levels.

A report providing the Committee with an overview of complaints activity and performance for Children’s Social Care for the period from 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013.