Decision

1.     To accept the report.
2.     To recommend to the Cabinet Member to add 'care and support' to the title of the report to ensure better clarity.
3.     To provide more attention in the report to problems with drugs, the need for care packages for young carers and unpaid carers, paying particular attention to parents caring for their children, and weekend palliative care, the standard of care in private care homes, and difficulties in accessing health appointments.
4.     To ask if it is possible to pre-scrutinise the area action plan when it is ready and to receive assurance that all Council departments, as well as the other relevant partners, are contributing to it.