Issue - meetings

The Scrutiny Committee has the opportunity to consider the portfolio dashboard for the Health & Adult Social Care portfolio and raise any issues with regard to performance.

Members can view the portfolio dashboards on the Portfolio Performance Dashboard website.  

The Scrutiny Committee had the opportunity to consider the portfolio dashboard for the Health & Adult Social Care portfolio and raise any issues with regard to performance.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care (Councillor Keith Holloway) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

Members requested an update in relation to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). In response, it was stated that it was reported at the last meeting of the Scrutiny Committee that the service had contracted with an external provider who to date were processing 300 DoLS assessments. There had also been some internal system changes to ensure the service was maximising the time that the assessors were available to complete direct work and assessments which included exploring the role of the administration support in the team to ensure that qualified best interest assessors were able to focus on undertaking assessments and contacting qualified assessors who had moved onto other roles to seek their interest and availability to be added to the rota which had allowed the service to undertake more assessments. In addition, a fully subscribed training course had been offered to enable more staff to undertake the assessments. It was noted that a full DoLS progress report would be submitted to the next meeting of the Scrutiny Committee.