| AdminHistory | The West Midlands Regional Children's Planning Committee was established in July 1970, and consisted of members from all of the Local Authority’s Social Services Committees, under the terms of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1969. Its function was to provide the Home Office with operational statistics and information for the whole of the West Midlands area. The original information requested by the Home Office was statistics involving estimates of the total number of children in care between March 1972 and March 1974, along with lists of observation and assessment facilities, special homes, homes for restricting liberty, such as Approved Schools, and other homes. The committee then had to supply other information as requested; for example, the inclusion of voluntary homes in the regional plan in November 1971, and the effect of the proposed pooling of Approved School resources in July 1972. The committee also appointed an Appointments Sub-Committee, which in turn appointed a minor sub-sub-committee in July 1971 to appoint a Professional Advisor to the Planning Committee. |