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Care experienced children and young people
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Tuesday, 1 August 2017 to Friday, 15 September 2017
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- CECYP_01 Tros Gynnal Children and NYAS Cymru PDF 47 KB
- CECYP_02 Fabric PDF 113 KB
- CECYP_03 Youth Offending Team Managers PDF 50 KB
- CECYP_04 Barnardos - English PDF 51 KB
- CECYP_05 Children's Commissioner for Wales PDF 190 KB
- CECYP_06 Children in Wales PDF 198 KB
- CECYP_07 The Fostering Network PDF 156 KB
- CECYP_08 Camarthenshire County Council PDF 51 KB
- CECYP_09 Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales PDF 42 KB
- CECYP_10 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Policy Group PDF 355 KB
- CECYP_11 Individual PDF 54 KB
- CECYP_12 Individual PDF 45 KB
- CECYP_13 Individual PDF 44 KB
- CECYP_14 Cross Party Group on Looked After Children PDF 145 KB
- CECYP_15 ADSS, WLGA and National Adoption Service PDF 271 KB
Purpose of the consultation
The
Public Accounts Committee of the
National Assembly is seeking information to inform their inquiry into care
experienced children and young people.
Background
The
Public Accounts Committee has agreed to undertake an inquiry looking at public
services for care experienced children and young people (who are, or have been,
‘looked after’ by a local authority under the Children Act 1989 and Social
Services and Well-being Act 2014) within its remit of considering the economy,
efficiency and effectiveness with which resources are employed in the discharge
of public functions in Wales
Terms of
Reference
The
Committee intends to make this a long-term inquiry spanning across the fifth
Assembly. The Committee has initially identified four areas which are outlined
below:
- Expenditure and value for money of
public services for care experienced children and young people;
- The effectiveness of local authority
corporate parenting arrangements;
- Value for money and the effectiveness of
current arrangements for care placements;
- Value for money of the Pupil Development
Grant for care experienced children.
The
Committee intends to start this inquiry by considering the first of these areas,
and would welcome your views on the specific questions below:
- The overall cost to and value for money
of the range public services aimed at improving outcomes for care
experienced children and young people;
- Whether the Welsh Government’s desired outcomes
for care experienced children and young people are being delivered by the
current levels of public expenditure;
- Whether the extent of spending specific
to care experienced children and young people is sufficiently transparent
across the range of public services;
- Whether public bodies have placed
sufficient emphasis on a long-term preventative spend approach, in line
with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, to maximise
the benefits of public expenditure for this group of children.
The
deadline for responses is 15 September 2017. Please send your views to:
Providing
Written Evidence
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National Assembly for Wales has two official languages, Welsh and English.
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line with the
Assembly’s Official Languages Scheme (PDF 1MB), the Committee requests that
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for those providing evidence for committees.
Disclosure
of information
Please
ensure that you have considered the Assembly’s policy
on disclosure of information before submitting information to the
Committee.
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Public Accounts Committee
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: Contact@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565