Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Education & Windsor

To note the report and approve:

i)              the new AfC Strategic Plan (appendix A)

ii)             the detailed 2024/25 budget (appendix B) including Medium Term Financial Strategy (appendix C)

iii)           the Treasury Plan (appendix D)

AGREED: That Cabinet noted the report and approved:

i)               the new AfC Strategic Plan (appendix A)

ii)              the detailed 2024/25 budget (appendix B) including Medium Term Financial Strategy (appendix C)

iii)             the Treasury Plan (appendix D)

The Chair introduced the report in the absence of the relevant Cabinet Member, Councillor Tisi. He outlined the recommendations that were before Cabinet and said that they as a Cabinet played an important role in the ownership governance of the jointly owned Children’s Services organisation, Achieving for Children (AfC). The report sought three outcomes from Cabinet, which were signoff on AfC’s strategic direction for the next five years, the 2024/25 budget and the treasury plan.

Lucy Kourpas, Chief Operating & Finance Officer, thanked the Chair for his introduction. She added that there were two strategic plans included within the report, one which was slightly lengthier being targeted more so at professionals and a much shorter one which had been developed with young persons and would be used to explain what AfC was to them. The plan also reiterated AfC’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, the environment, value for money and partnership working.

The Chair thanked Lucy Kourpas for her hard work and for the inclusion of young persons throughout the process of shaping the plan.

AGREED: That Cabinet noted the report and approved:

i)               the new AfC Strategic Plan (appendix A)

ii)             the detailed 2024/25 budget (appendix B) including Medium Term Financial Strategy (appendix C)

iii)            the Treasury Plan (appendix D)