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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LANCASHIRE AND BLACKPOOL REGIONAL ADOPTION AGENCY.

 

 

Meeting: 23/03/2020 - Executive (Item 3.)

3. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LANCASHIRE AND BLACKPOOL REGIONAL ADOPTION AGENCY. pdf icon PDF 363 KB

Blackpool Council and Lancashire County Council have been working together since May 2018 to design and develop the ‘Adoption Lancashire and Blackpool’ Regional Adoption Agency, with Lancashire being the Host Authority. The purpose of this report is to agree the final steps on behalf of Blackpool Council including confirmation of the pooled budget

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Decision:

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

 

  1. To confirm, in line with previous decisions, to merge the delivery of the Council’s Adoption Agency to form a Regional Adoption Agency with and hosted by Lancashire County Council from 1 April 2020.

 

  1. To agree to transfer the current Blackpool Council funding of £997,816 for running the Council’s Adoption Services into the Regional Adoption Agency pooled budget. 

 

 

  1. To delegate authority to the Head of Legal Services to sign off any required legal agreement on behalf of the Council.