Issue - meetings

To recommend to Cabinet that Members be made aware of their duties under the DCSF Transformation of Services – ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children and their Families’, and endorse the proposals being put in place to take this forward.

Cabinet gave consideration to this report which outlined their duties under the Department for Children Schools and Families Transformation of Services programme ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children’.  It was reported that the People Advisory Panel had considered the matter the previous day and had revised the recommendations being made to Cabinet; these were reported by the Portfolio Holder for Adult Services and were agreed by the Cabinet. 

RESOLVED

For the reasons set out in the report and as now reported: -

1. That Cabinet welcome the Aiming High Initiative for the recognition which it gives to the distinctive needs of disabled children and for the new resources which are to be made available to help address them.

2. That steps be taken to ensure that Aiming High is effectively incorporated into the structure of Cheshire East Council and that appropriate Governance arrangements be put in place.

3. That steps be taken to ensure that services for children and families and services for adults are required to work together on the implementation of Aiming High and particularly to ensure that the issue of transition is addressed at the design stage and not as an afterthought.