Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Chair.

The report advises the Board of changes required to its membership arising from changes to the Local Authority Statutory post holders and seeks the Board’s views on other possible changes to Board membership in light of changes within the health and care economy.

Officer contact: Jonathan Vali, 0161 474 3201, jonathan.vali@stockport.gov.uk

The Chair submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Board to note changes to the membership in light of the retirement of Andrew Webb at the end of March 2018.

The Chair reminded the Board of previous discussion that had taken place over a number of months about the role and function of the Board, in light of which the membership had been broadened out to include the larger provider partners. The Chair suggested that it would be timely to give further consideration to membership and purpose of the Board in light of continuing changes to the organisations involved and the development of Stockport Together.

The Chair suggested a further informal session for members to discuss these issues further.

A further suggestion was made to consider creating a sub-committee to discharge the Board’s responsibilities in respect of the Better Care Fund to allow for more timely meetings and consideration of quarterly monitoring reports, should they still be needed.

The need to ensure that there remained an open and transparent Board holding other more opaque elements of the system to account was emphasised.

RESOLVED – (1) That the appointment of Chris McLoughlin to vacancy for the Statutory Director of Children’s Services and Mark Fitton to the vacancy for the Statutory Director of Adult Social Services be noted.

(2) That agreement be given to the establishment of a sub-committee of the Board to discharge the Board’s duties and responsibilities in respect of the Better Care Fund quarterly monitoring, to have a minimum membership of two councillor representatives of the Council, two representatives of the Clinical Commissioning Group and the representative from Healthwatch.

(3) That the Democratic Services Manager, in consultation with the Chair, be requested to arrange an informal session for the Board to discussion membership and its future role and form.