Issue - meetings

This report proposes an approach to scrutiny of the Adult Social Care transformation programme, Fulfilled Lives.  This follows on from Council’s agreement establish the programme and to an initial £1.79m investment.

Council agreed that the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee should provide regular scrutiny of progress towards benefits and sustainable change.  In particular, the Committee is invited to review the progress against the four priority areas of the Fulfilled Lives programme and the risks and opportunities of data with ASC transformation.

The Corporate Director for Wellbeing presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

The report proposed an approach to scrutiny of the Adult Social Care transformation programme, Fulfilled Lives.  This followed on from Council’s agreement establish the programme and to an initial £1.79m investment.

Council agreed that the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee should provide regular scrutiny of progress towards benefits and sustainable change.  In particular, the Committee was invited to review the progress against the four priority areas of the Fulfilled Lives programme and the risks and opportunities of data with ASC transformation.

The Chair advised that the proposed starting point for this long term scrutiny would be an informal briefing session on 4 November which would focus on the two areas of ‘how we work project’ and the ‘risks and opportunities of data’.

The Committee discussed the report, including:

• In response to a request for more information regarding micro providers and the Committee was advised of the plan to develop the smaller providers to enable a wider available market.  The Committee was advised of the process and the timescales being worked towards.  The Committee discussed the most appropriate time for this to be scrutinised to ensure the Committee could add value and it was highlighted that this fell under the strand of ‘Self Directed Support’ which would come to a future Committee.  ADD TO WORK PLAN
• In response to a query regarding the 3.5 million saving detailed in the report, the Corporate Director for Wellbeing requested that this be considered under the next item of the budget presentation when the Committee would receive fuller detail around the transformation programme.
• In response to a query regarding the transformation programme, the Committee was advised that it had been built on advice from the Local Government Association (LGA) which was drawn from a wealth of experience from many local authorities. 
• The Overview and Scrutiny Specialist suggested that time to scrutinise the different elements of the Fulfilled Lives Programme be plotted into the Committee’s Work Plan to ensure capacity.  ADD TO WORK PLAN.

RESOLVED that the Committee agree to the proposal at paragraph 7 of the Report, to consider a series of sessions over the next 18 months, starting with two areas – the how we work project and the risks and opportunities of data.