Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Children’s Services.

This report provides an update on the progress with Tameside and Stockport’s shared services programme which aims to improve outcomes for children and families by delivering the best possible services through challenging times and within diminishing resources, supported through an emphasis on collaboration and partnership. The programme aims to explore and realise the opportunities to do things differently to build capacity and share best practice across traditional boundaries. It also provides an update on outcomes of a scoping exercise that took place over the Summer 2021 and the recommendations for a phased approach to reviewing opportunities for shared services.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to comment on and note the report.

Officer contact: Carolyn Anderson, Carolyn.anderson@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Director of Children’s Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on the progress with Tameside and Stockport’s shared services programme which aimed to improve outcomes for children and families by delivering the best possible services through challenging times and within diminishing resources, supported through an emphasis on collaboration and partnership. The programme aimed to explore and realise the opportunities to do things differently to build capacity and share best practice across traditional boundaries. It also provided an update on outcomes of a scoping exercise that took place over the Summer 2021 and the recommendations for a phased approach to reviewing opportunities for shared services.

The Cabinet Member for Children, Family Services and Education (Councillor Colin Foster) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

Members welcomed the update and thanked officers for the update.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.