Agenda and minutes

Janet Clowes Care and Health in the Community Portfolio Holder

Brenda Smith - Director, Adult Social Care & Independent Livi

Lynn Glendenning - Commissioning Manager-Relations&Contracts(Adults)

Ann Riley - Corporate Commissioning Manager

Sarah Smith- Corporate Commissioning Manager

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2014

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2014 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda.

There were no declarations of interest.

To provide an opportunity for Members to declare the existence of a party whip in relation to any item on the Agenda

There were no declarations of the existence of a party whip.

A total period of 15 minutes is allocated for members of the public to make a statement(s) on any matter that falls within the remit of the Committee.

Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes, but the Chairman will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned, where there are a number of speakers.

Note: in order for officers to undertake and background research, it would be helpful if members of the public notified the Scrutiny Officer listed at the foot of the Agenda at least one working day before the meeting with brief details of the matter to be covered.

There were no members of the public present who wished to speak.

(1)  To examine the amended draft Adult Social Care Commissioning Strategy as appended.

(2)  To agree any comments and recommendations it may have for Cabinet.

At its meeting held on held on 11 September, the committee had given initial consideration had been given to the Adult Social Care commissioning Strategy. The Committee had made a number of comments regarding the strategy and had also recommended that a copy of the delivery plan arising from the strategy be circulated to members of the Committee.

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Adult Social Care and Independent Living regarding the draft Adult Social Care Commissioning Strategy together with a number of additional appendices including delivery plans.

In addition, Ann Riley gave a presentation on the content of the strategy.

Members of the committee were then invited to comment on the report and presentation and the following matters were raised:

·         In response to a question regarding public accessibility to the services provided by the Council, the committee was informed that a new service directory was due to be published soon with 40,000 copies being distributed throughout the borough including doctors surgeries, hospitals etc. Also, the Council’s website would be re-designed to provide easy access advice to families and professionals.

·         In response to a question about how the Council actively pursued measures to ensure that elderly people to continue to live at home, it was reported that it was implicit in the strategy that the preference of the Council was to keep people in their own homes with domiciliary care and adaptations.

·         The ageing well board had recently reviewed its work and had decided to target isolation and loneliness as a priority and were hoping to link into silverline.

·         The Council had established a new quality assurance team in strategic commissioning which was working closely with partners in relation to safeguarding of adults.

·         That the document should make reference to ‘young carers’ on page 46 of the document.

·         The Committee felt that the strategy should be amended to include information about empowering the local community.

RESOLVED-

(a)  That the report be received;

(b)  That the consultation arrangements be extended beyond health care colleagues to include carers also;

(c)  That a further report be submitted to a future meeting on the details of the quality assurance team;

(d)  That  it be recommended that the strategy be amended to include  information about empowering the local community