Decision details

Report of the Cabinet Member for Aspiration, Children and Lifelong Learning seeking approval of the Looked After Children and Care Leavers Placements Sufficiency Strategy 2020-2025.

(i)  To approve the Council’s Placement Commissioning Sufficiency Statement and Strategy 2020-2025.

Southampton City Council’s current Placement Commissioning Sufficiency Strategy expires on 31st March, 2020 and there is therefore a need to produce and publish a new strategy. 

Not Applicable – Statutory Guidance states that ‘Local authorities must be able to show that at a strategic level they are taking steps to meet the sufficiency duty, so far as is ‘reasonably practical’. The Council’s Placement Commissioning Sufficiency Statement and Strategy ensures that it fulfils this requirement.