Children Looked After Sufficiency and Fostering Residential

Leeds City Council along with its partners, is seeking to address significant challenges in the increasing numbers of Children Looked After; increasing challenges on ensuring the correct and appropriate mix of placement types (internal fostering, Independent Fostering Agencies, internal residential accommodation, external residential accommodation etc.); increasing cost of and scarcity of external residential accommodation and at times challenging outcomes for our children. As part of the Leeds Sufficiency Strategy...