Issue details

Supporting children in care to progress from residential children’s homes to family settings contract award

Award of contract to Reconnect on a payment by results basis for support to step twenty-one children down from residential children’s homes to foster care or to be reunified to their family achieving potential revenue savings.

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: Expenditure;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Notice of proposed decision first published: 26/06/2025

Open/Exempt: Open;

Decision due: 28 July 2025 by Leader of the Council

Comment: Councillor Tudor Evans OBE

Lead member: Cabinet Member for Children's Social Care, Culture, and Communications

Lead director: Director of Children's Services

Department: Childrens Services

Contact: David Haley, Director of Childrens Services Email: David.Haley@plymouth.gov.uk.

Making Representations: Please contact david.haley@plymouth.gov.uk if you would like to make representations by 24 July 2025. Any non-confidential document(s) may be obtained from the officer contact by email or from Plymouth City Council, Council House, Plymouth, PL1 2AA.

Information to be considered by the decision makers: Executive Decision Sheet, Briefing Report, EIA, CIA and any other relevant information.

Is this decision due to be taken in private? (Yes/No): No.

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