Speaking at a council meeting yesterday, Birmingham City Council's lead member for children and families, Brigid Jones, said the council is exploring two possible options for how the trust will run - as a company wholly owned by the council, or as an employee mutual.
The proposed scope of services that will transfer to the new organisation include "front door" services for child protection referrals, family support interventions, assessment teams, safeguarding teams, children in care teams, leaving care teams, the youth offending service and fostering and adoption services.
"The ‘probably in' list of services to go into the trust constitutes around 1,200 employees, so it's quite a large consultation exercise," Jones said at the meeting.
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