Decision Maker:

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: December 11, 2024

Purpose:

Content: 13.1 The Director for Adult Care and Wellbeing introduced the report which provided the committee with the quarterly update on performance and delivery of the Strategy Living the Life You Want to Live. These reports provided the Committee with updates in relation to several areas highlighted in the executive summary. 13.2 RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That the Adult Health and Social Care Policy Committee:- Notes progress in delivering upon the Adult Care Strategy Living the Life You Want to Live. Notes performance update and areas for prioritisation and focus. Notes our Technology Enabled Care Road Map. Notes our approach towards reviewing Unmet Need. Endorses Living The Life You Want To Live High-Level Delivery Plan 2024 – 2026. Notes the preparations for the LGA Peer Review and CQC assessment. Note the development of the Co-production Statement of Intent, aligned with the Council’s Engagement Statement of Intent. 13.3 Reasons for Decision 13.3.1 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. 13.3.2 Endorsing the Strategy Delivery High Level Plan enables Committee to continue to undertake scrutiny of the service and strategy delivery plan in an informed and meaningful way. 13.3.3 Noting the Technology Enabled Care Roadmap, draft Co-Production Statement and Unmet Need Reports highlights the work undertaken to continue to deliver on key elements and foundations for delivering on our strategy. 13.3.4 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. 13.3.5 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. 13.3.6 Noting the journey of improvement and noting the LGA Peer Review, alongside assurance that the portfolio is delivering against its vision and ambitions to deliver the best possible services to the people of Sheffield. 13.3.7 DASS Local Account and Annual Self-Assessment: Covered by separate Committee Report (noted here for reference). 13.4 Alternatives Considered and Rejected 13.4.1 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. 13.4.2 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. 13.4.3 Alternative Option 3: 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. 13.4.4 Alternative Option 4: 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.