Decision details

LOCYP - 2122014 - re-engagement of children and young people who are missing education

Decision Maker: Assistant Director Partnerships, Early Intervention and Localities

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

See attached ODR for full details

Decision:

To increase the level of resource supporting the re- engagement of children and young people who are missing education or whose parents have opted to electively home educate them.

Further details on the posts can be found within the attached ODR.

Funding for these posts would come from the Opportunity Area Programme.

The Doncaster Opportunity Area Funding is time limited and has to be spent by the 31st August 2021.

Alternative options considered:

Do Nothing
This option would put the provider and in turn, the council at risk of failure of being able to fulfil their obligations under the Mental Health Act 1983, Children and Families Act 2014, and Children’s Act 1989, to meet the needs of CYP who have
been assessed as requiring these services. We would also be morally failing our children and young people in need of these services, and would not be taking on board the government’s plans for expansion on mental health services through the Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper (DoH and DfE, December 2017).

Publication date: 25/08/2021

Date of decision: 08/06/2021

Accompanying Documents: