Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: February 11, 2025

Purpose: Report on the conclusions of the assessment of adult social care in Northumberland by the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC), following their visit in August 2024. (Cabinet date dependent on when final report is received.)

Content: RESOLVED that Cabinet note the report for information, and in particular, it be noted that: (a)      CQC’s assessment of the Council’s delivery of its adult social care duties is among the most positive assessments that they have so far published.  The report makes particularly encouraging comments on the Council’s partnership arrangements with other organisations; (b)      The report assesses the Council’s performance as “good” in seven of the nine domains which it covers.  The two domains in which it says that the evidence considered by CQC “shows some shortfalls” were both identified as priorities for improvement in a position statement that was published by the Council earlier this year as the starting point for a broad conversation with service users, carers, staff and partner organisations about priorities for adult social care over the next three years; and (c)      Consolidated action plans are being developed to address priorities for improvement identified through the CQC report and through the local conversation which the position statement initiated.