Minutes for Cabinet Member - Health and Social Care meeting, Jan 20 2010, 12.00PM official page

No apologies for absence were received.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

The following declaration of interest was received:

Member

Minute No.

Interest

Action

Cllr Brennan

54 – Annual Review of Performance for Adult Social Care

Personal –

Employment and Board Member at New Directions

Took part in the consideration of the item.

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting held on 23 December 2009 be confirmed as a correct record.

Report of the Strategic Director - Social Care and Well-Being

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director of Adult Social Care and Wellbeing, on the outcome of the Annual Performance Assessment by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and indicating that it was the requirement of the CQC that the Annual Performance Assessment Report was presented to a meeting of the Council; that unlike previous years there was no star rating, rather an aggregated score in relation to delivery of seven outcomes identified by the Department of Health, together with two additional domains.  The report also indicated the potential grading outcomes as follows:

(1)        Grading Outcomes

·        Performing excellently

·        Performing well

·        Performing adequately

·        Performing poorly

(2)              Delivering outcomes

·        Improved health and well being: Well

·        Improved quality of life: Well

·        Making a positive contribution: Well

·        Increased choice and control:  Well

·        Freedom from discrimination or harassment: Well

·        Economic well being :  Well

·        Maintaining personal dignity and respect: Well

(3)                 Domains

·        Leadership

·        Commissioning and Use of Resources

Copies of letters and the Annual Performance Assessment were attached as annexes to the report.

The Members expressed their thanks to all involved in delivering the services in relation to adult health and social care and helping to achieve the positive outcomes identified in the report.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the contents of the letter and report from the CQC in relation to the Annual Performance Assessment for 2008-09 as set out in Annexes A-D to the report be noted; and

(2)       the request to refer the report to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Health and Social Care) be approved.

Report of the Strategic Director - Social Care and Well-Being

The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director of Adult Social Care and Wellbeing on the quality of Social Care in Sefton and indicating that the purpose of the report was to apprise the Cabinet Member of the positive responses from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England, in relation to the quality of services commissioned for Sefton for funded service users and in order to fulfil statutory requirements placed upon them and in general the quality of services procured that were monitored by a variety of methods.

The report indicated that the CQC had undertaken an assessment of Sefton’s Social Care Activity, and had used the assessment tool CRILL (Capturing Regulatory Information at a Local Level) for the first time, alongside LAMA (Local Area Market Analyser), which together would provide a rich source of information about the way in which the Council provided adult social care services, namely: commissioning and purchasing services; understanding the needs of people within their area; engagement with people in developing and shaping services; working effectively with partner agencies and making the most effective use of resources.

CQC had concluded that there was only 1 “Poor” home, but there were 12 “Adequate”, 70 “Good” and 29 “Excellent” rated homes; that 12 remained to have their ratings announced but local intelligence decrees that, should standards be maintained, these homes would fall into the ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ category; and that following the report, Sefton Council had agreed an action plan with the home classified as ‘Poor’, which had now improved its rating to ‘Adequate’.

A copy of the notification received by the Directorate in February 2009 was attached to the report as Appendix 1, and a detailed spreadsheet which showed the ratings applied by the CQC for all homes in the Borough was attached to the report as Appendix 2.

RESOLVED: That

(1)               contents of the report be noted; and

(2)               the request to refer the report to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Health and Social Care) be approved.