The
first 33 minutes of the two hour Children’s Services and Education Scrutiny Committee
meeting was devoted to Foster Care and two long standing Carers related their
experiences and answered Councillors’ questions. There is no way to
realistically summarise that section except that the ladies concerned found it
very rewarding and had stuck with it for much longer than they had initially
planned. The detail is currently available on the webcast.
The number of Bexley children currently being fostered was unknown.
The meeting failed to provide any interesting nuggets of information unless
you have been following the number of school exclusions for drug offences. The numbers are down.