Corporate Parenting emphasises the collective responsibility of local authorities to achieve good parenting and in broad terms, the whole Council is expected to do what any good parent would do to promote their children's educational aspirations, ensure their child's health and safety and support their achievements in life.
When a child becomes looked after by the City Council, the City Council becomes their corporate parent. This means that everyone who works for the City Council and the councillors elected to represent the council and make decisions for the city; all these have a special and important responsibility to be a corporate parent for the children being looked after. Newcastle wants everything for the children it its care that a good parent wants, it wants each child:
Newcastle wants each of the children in its care to be happy members of the local communities in which they live. There's a Children in Care Council - a council of children and young people looked after Newcastle - who meet regularly with councilors and senior managers to make sure Newcastle is the best corporate parent it can be.