Actions for system and service change are required in order to meet the recommendation outlined within the strategy .  These have been split initially over the first there years, with detailed actions and milestones outlined for year one, some of which are already in progress.  Actions and milestones may change as part of an annual refresh to the needs analysis.

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1. Step 1: Actions for 2024/25, Show this section

   1. Actions and targets for 2024/25

2. Step 2: Actions for 2025/26, Show this section

   1. Actions and targets for 2025/26

3. Step 3: Actions for 2026/27, Show this section

   1. Actions and targets for 2026/27

Place called home programme structure and governance

Actions contained within the plan are reported through the following governance routes:

• A Place Called Home Programme Board
  • The A Place Called homes programme is made up of five workstreams as follows:
    • Achieving Permanence – Project deliverables are concerned with actions required to promote stability, enabling children and young people to live in long term homes that meet their care and support needs.
    • Childrens Home Development and Staying Close – Project deliverables enables the local authority to build homes for children and young people that are managed by the local authority.
    • Fostering Recruitment and Retention – Project deliverables are concerned with increasing the number and capabilities of our foster carers.
    • Finding Homes for Children – Project deliverables will improve the way in which the local authority search and secure homes, care and support for children in care and care experienced young people.
    • Provider sufficiency – Project deliverables are concerned with increasing the availability (and in some areas the number) of homes for children in care and care experienced young people.

• The Care for Me Corporate Parenting Subgroup
  • Care for Me is a subgroup of the Devon Corporate Parenting Board.   It is concerned with the housing, care and support needs of children in care and care experienced young people in Devon.  The action plan for this group covers 5 broad areas as follows:
    • Data – Understanding the current and future need and ensuring gaps are identified and illustrated.
    • Foster care Sufficiency – Improving access to and the quality of foster care in Devon.
    • Residential childrens home sufficiency – Ensuring sufficient supply of quality homes for children in Devon.
    • Housing policy interpretation – Ensuring clear protocols and guidance are in place and that partners work together to offer support according to need.
    • System redesign – Review and redesign the support and accommodation available to homeless 16- and 17-year-olds and care experienced young people.