| Description | Minute volumes indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes are in the appropriately titled sub-committee minute books. The minutes include copies of reception orders regarding individual children taken into care, with detailed reports on children boarded out or adopted, rotas of visitors, the reports of the Superintendent and Matron concerning various cottage homes and similar institutions, and the reports of the Medical Officer of Health as regards child health and associated welfare issues. The minutes include lists of Delegations and Instructions concerning the statutory responsibilities and obligations of the sub-committee with regard to childcare provision, examinations of reports on young children, information on the provision of suitable accommodation for them as necessary, and the finance, resourcing and staffing of the department and the offices, homes and organisations that fell under its care. There are also reports and minutes of conferences of representatives from Birmingham Children's Services and similar departments of other local authorities, with detailed analyses of the main functions of childcare provision, as stated in central government legislation and regulations. |