· Covering the full statutory role as Lead Member for Children’s Services
· Ensure the Children’s Trust is fulfilling its partnership role
· Early Help and children’s social care services including disabled children
· Supporting families to stay together wherever appropriate, and promoting security and stability when children do come into our care
· Corporate parenting and ensuring our looked after children succeed
· SEND support and statutory duties related to SEND
· Early years, childcare, and children’s centres
· Strong safeguarding through the Merton Safeguarding Children’s Partnership.
· Youth Justice Service and prevention of youth crime
· Joint responsibility for Merton’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy
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