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12.1

The Interim
Strategic Director of Adult Care and Wellbeing introduced the
report which updated the Committee on performance and delivery of
the Strategy Living the Life You Want to
Live.

 

 

12.2

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.   
Endorses the Strategy Delivery Programme and ambitions for the
future.
c.    
Notes the performance update and areas for prioritisation and
focus.
d.   
Notes our approach towards reviewing Early Help and
Prevention.
e.   
Notes the preparations for the CQC assessment, which will take
place before the end of 2025.
f.     
Note the continuing review and activity in relation to
co-production, engagement and market
sustainability.

 

 

12.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

12.3.1

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

 

 

12.3.2

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.

 

 

12.3.3

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.

 

 

12.3.4

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.

 

 

12.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

12.4.1

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..

 

 

12.4.2

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.

 

 

12.4.3

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

 

 

12.4.4

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

 

 

12.4.5

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.

 

 

12.4.6

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