1.    that the Director of Corporate Services be requested to update the Council’s Equality Impact Assessment Templates to include care experience under the list of protected characteristics in line with the Inclusion Strategy for Torbay for 2025-2030; and

2.    that the amendment to the Terms of Reference for the Corporate Parenting Board, to include the Leader of the Council and the Senior Corporate Parenting Lead (as a contributing attendee) to its membership, be approved.  This change demonstrates the Council’s strengthened commitment to delivering the objectives of the Corporate Parenting Strategy.

That Cabinet recommends to Council:

3.    that the Corporate Parenting Strategy 2026-2028 set out at Appendix 1 to the submitted report be approved.

That authority be delegated to the Director of Children’s Services to launch the 6 week public consultation when appropriate to inform the development of the new Corporate Parenting Strategy.