Issue - meetings

Annual Adult Social Care Complaints report

Meeting: 27/11/2023 - Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 35)

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Adult Social Care has a statutory responsibility to produce an annual report on complaints received, issues that have been raised and any action that has been taken to improve services.

 

This report provides a summary of complaints and compliments, including learning, for BCP Council Adult Social Care from 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Head of Transformation and Integration presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

 

Adult Social Care had a statutory responsibility to produce an annual report on complaints received, issues that had been raised and any action that had been taken to improve services.

 

The report provided a summary of complaints and compliments, including learning, for BCP Council Adult Social Care from 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.

 

The Committee discussed the report and comments were made, including:

 

  • In response to a query from the Chair regarding the Executive Performance and Quality Improvement Board and the data considered, the Committee was advised of the data set used
  • A Committee Member congratulated the team and felt that the majority of complaints came from a misunderstanding about what an individual may or may not be entitled to and that an increase in communication around that, may reduce complaints.
  • The Director of Adult Social Care advised that the core data used could be shared with the Committee, but it needed to be confidential. ACTION.

 

RESOLVED that the Committee:

i) consider and scrutinise the information contained in

this report.

ii) consider any actions or issues for inclusion in the

forward plan.