Decision details

To approve funds to expand the in-house children’s residential home provision.

1. Approve expansion of our in-house children’s residential home provision by converting existing council properties into two new children’s homes, to accommodate 5 and 6 young people respectively, between the ages of 8 and 17 years.

2. Approve the part use of the existing department capital policy provision of £6.7m to fund the schemes. This will also be supported by the match funded DfE capital children’s home grant award for £0.5m.

As part of our delivery of our placement sufficiency strategy, approval is given to expand our in-house children’s residential home provision by a further two homes to care for a further 11 young people in care. This will provide more local homes, with access to local support services, and reduce our reliance on the external market.

Continue with the current level of in-house residential provision and commissioning of external placements.

Develop one of the proposed new homes.