What our priorities are and how we're doing

The Corporate Parenting Strategy 2022 - 2025 (PDF 751MB) is our plan and vision for fulfilling the ambitions and corporate parenting responsibilities to all our children in care and care leavers.

• Children Looked After strategy 2019 – 2022 (PDF 740KB)
• Sufficiency Summary 2024 (PDF 540KB)
• Opening in a new windowCare Leavers Strategy 2019-2022Care Leavers Strategy 2019-2022Care Leavers Strategy 2019-2022 (PDF 425KB)

• Plan for children and young people (PDF 1.66mb)
• 0-25 Integration - summary
• Shaping the Future - summary
• Children's Services Complaints Annual Report 2017-18 (PDF 456KB)
• 6 outcome bees – outcome framework for children, young people and families in Hertfordshire.
• Carer's strategy (PDF 768kb) - covers both adult carers and young carers.

 

Adoption service

• Adopter's Charter (PDF 8MB) - we signed up to the charter to give support and better outcomes to all people directly affected by adoption.
• Adoption Service statement of purpose 2020/21 (PDF 8.4MB)

 

Youth Justice Service

• Hertfordshire Youth Justice Plan 2024-25 (PDF 4.19MB) Opening a new window

Hertfordshire's Fostering Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 2.85MB)

 

Foreword

Jo Fisher – Executive Director of Children’s Services

"In November 2020, Hertfordshire County Council produced its first Fostering Strategy ‘One Team built around the child’ with the aim of all teams, departments and organisations working together as one team to grow and improve fostering in Hertfordshire.

By doing this well, we would have more skilled in-house foster carers who are able to meet the needs of the children and young people in our care and more choice of homes for children who are looked after in Hertfordshire, helping them to achieve good outcomes in a local family environment.

Over the last three years, a number of actions within the strategy have been delivered, including recruiting over 100 new in-house foster carers, introducing a new payment structure, a new support offer and improved training opportunities.

The fostering strategy has been evaluated following consultation with children and young people, foster carers and partners. A new updated version has now been published with a focus on recruitment and retention of foster carers, our support offer, emergency care provision, short breaks and the development of an intensive fostering project."

The Shared Anti-Fraud Service (SAFS) investigates possible cases of fraud or corruption.

It's a partnership between:

 

Our data on fraud is updated on an annual basis.

• Fraud 2013-2020 (XLS 15Kb) opening in a new window

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• Public health strategy 2022– 2027 (PDF 1.61MB)
• Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-26 (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Dementia Strategy 2023-28 (PDF 1.9MB)
• COVID Recovery Strategy (PDF, 2.7MB)

These strategies were published before 20 May 2025, under the previous Conservative administration.

Our People Strategy 2024-2028 (PDF, 12.1MB) sets out how we will attract, retain and develop our workforce.

LGA Corporate Peer Challenge Report - Progress Review October 2023 (PDF 273KB)

LGA Corporate Peer Challenge Report - October 2022 (PDF, 811KB)

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The Corporate Plan is our vision for Hertfordshire. It sets out our key priorities and how we plan to make them happen.

Corporate Plan 2022-25

Hertfordshire Libraries Annual Report 2023-24

The report shares highlights from our libraries during the last year, reflecting the key themes of the Inspiring Libraries: My Place strategy.

View the Libraries Annual Report