The increasing demands on the Social Services department of Pembrokeshire Council has been set out in an annual report.

The report of the Statutory Director of Social Services 2023-24, details how Social Services is working to enhance the well-being of those who have accessed PCC services.

The report presented to Cabinet this month states that significant extra resource has been put in the child care assessment team to deal with cases that appear at the front door, often with complex safeguarding situations.

It notes that the number of young people looked after by the Authority has increased from 127 in March 2017 to 257 in March 2024. This has also led to a major increase in the cost of out of county placements.

A Pembrokeshire property has been bought to provide a more cost effective solution to meet care needs and enable children and young people to remain close to their home community and further in-house accommodation based solutions are being explored.

The total number of people contacting adult services in 2023/24 was up by 9% on the previous year, including 4,395 new contacts.

You can see the report at: https://mgenglish.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/documents/s76446/Appendix%20Atodiad%20A.pdf?LLL=0