Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/217

Contact: Robyn Noonan, Strategic & Performance Service Manager, Tel: (01865) 323664

Report by Cabinet Member for Adult Services (CA11).

This report summarises outcomes from the 'Hearsay' event and Business Strategy engagement sessions in 2011, both relating to developments in social care . It sets out the background to the growth of personalisation in Adult Social Care. The concept of personalisation is defined, and the policy context is set out, from Community Care law reforms of the 1990's to 'Putting People First' in 2007.

The report welcomes the introduction of Personalisation as a policy and reviews some of the risks involved in more direct purchasing of social care by individuals, for example the use of 'Personal Assistants'. It outlines the measures being proposed to Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee for assuring quality in externally provided care. This includes the role of Members in promoting and assuring quality in services which operate in their locality.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

(a)       to note the current position; and

(b)       to RECOMMEND to Council to receive the report and debate its implications for Members.

The Cabinet had before them a report by the Cabinet Member for Adult Services which welcomed the introduction of Personalisation as a policy and reviewed some of the risks involved in more direct purchasing of social care by individuals. The report further outlined the measures being proposed to Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee for assuring quality in externally provided care. This included the role of Members in promoting and assuring quality in services which operated in their locality.

Councillor Jenny Hannaby, Shadow Cabinet Member for Adult Services spoke in support of paragraphs 15, 16 and 17 of the report CA11, namely that Members should have a central role in the further development and promotion of personalisation in Oxfordshire and in the Adult Services Scrutiny Committee considering proposals for Members to take a more formal role in assuring service quality across key provision in their local area.  She stressed that there would need to be a firm division of officers and member processes.

RESOLVED:  to

(a)       to note the current position; and

(b)       to RECOMMEND to Council to receive the report and debate its implications for Members.