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8.1

The Strategic Director for Adult
Care and Wellbeing presented an overview of activity in Adult Care
and Wellbeing including the latest performance data and reports to
Members going forward, statutory adherence and compliance, progress
in delivering the business plan/strategy, including planned
refresh

 

 

8.2

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That Adult
Health and Social Care Policy Committee:-
 
a)   
Notes progress in delivering upon the Adult Care Strategy Living
the Life You Want to Live
b)   
Notes the performance update and areas for prioritisation and
focus, including performance dashboard at Appendix
A
c)   
Notes the strategy delivery updates and achievements for this
period
d)   
Notes the progress of our preparation for CQC following the site
visit in September, and next steps

 

 

 

 

8.3

Reasons for Decision

 

 

8.3.1

Asking for regular updates on the Strategy Delivery, our
Performance and CQC will enable the Committee, wider stakeholders,
and the public to hold the Council to account for progress and
impact and will provide an additional mechanism to input to future
development.

 

 

8.3.2

Endorsing the Strategy Delivery Programme and Assurance
Programme enables Committee to continue to undertake scrutiny of
the service and strategy delivery plan in an informed and
meaningful way.

 

 

8.3.3

Asking for regular updates and refreshes of the CQC
self-assessment, including wider assessment preparations and
communications will enable Committee to have oversight and
assurance that Adult Care know themselves and are able to drive
forward service improvements, alongside the assurance that we are
well prepared for the CQC assessment
process

 

 

8.3.4

Noting the performance update, enables Committee to undertake
scrutiny of Adult Care performance including strengths and areas
for prioritisation, including the development of our Performance
Management framework / cycle of Assurance, alongside our
improvement plans in this area.?

 

 

8.4

Alternatives Considered and
Rejected

 

 

8.4.1

Alternative Option 1: Do Not Provide an Update on
The Strategy Delivery Plan Progress – When the Strategy
Delivery Plan was approved by Committee in June 2022 the was a
commitment to review the plan regularly and by not reviewing, we
would not be meeting that commitment. Due to the significant amount
that has been delivered on the plan, leaving it as it would make it
harder to identify the priorities going
forward.

 

 

8.4.2

Alternative Option 2: A different delivery plan -
The real options for the delivery plan are around the individual
elements, which will be worked through as part of the constituent
pieces of work. These will be worked through in different ways,
with many of them resulting in their own future reports to the
Committee.

 

 

8.4.3

Alternative Option 3: Do not Review Our Strategy.
The strategy for Adult Care and wellbeing is nearly 3 years ago.
Although co-produced the portfolio is in a very different position
now compared to the time when the strategy was originally written.
Undertaking a mid-term review enables us to refresh our strategy
and priority outcomes to ensure that it is fit for purpose and
maintains its relevance.

 

 

8.4.4

Alternative Option 4: Do not work in partnership
/ collaboratively. It is a statutory requirement to work in
partnership with colleagues across the health, care, and wellbeing
system, as set out in the 2021 White Paper. The Statutory Duty to
Involve also requires us to engage and involve people who use
services, and unpaid carers in the design and delivery of care and
wellbeing. We would not be meeting these requirements if we did not
work in meaningful partnership across, they system, and with all
stakeholders.

 

 

8.4.5

Alternative Option 5: Do not Prepare for the CQC
Assessment. The CQC assessment of Adult Social Care Services is not
optional. The outcomes of the assessment are published on the CQC
website and have ramifications wider than Adult Care and Wellbeing.
A negative Outcome would mean that we are not delivering our duties
under the Care Act. In addition, a negative outcome would impact on
the reputation of the Council, the confidence of our customers and
partners, recruitment and retention, staff morale, and potential
funding opportunities.

 

 

8.4.6

Alternative Option 6. Do not share the ACW CQC
Self-Assessment with partners and in the public domain: To not
share the self-assessment and ask for comment would go against the
approach and principles we are embedding as business as usual in
Adult Care. To have both credibility and relevance, it is vital
that this is a report which provides an honest and transparent
narrative for adult social care informed by the voices and
experiences of staff, partners, commissioned providers, VCSE, and
the people who access our services, their families, carers, and
those with lived experience.