Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors.

To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.

Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications.

Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance.

Declarations received will be reported at the meeting.

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 23 September 2025.

To check on any outstanding actions.

To receive any public questions, statements or petitions submitted in accordance with the Constitution. Further information on the requirements for submitting these is available to view at the following link:-

https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeID=151&Info=1&bcr=1

The deadline for the submission of public questions is midday 3 clear working days before the meeting – Tuesday 25 November 2025.

The deadline for the submission of a statement is midday the working day before the meeting – Friday 28 November 2025.

The deadline for the submission of a petition is 10 working days before the meeting -14 November 2025

The BCP Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) publishes an Annual Report each year and is required, as set out in the Care Act 2014, to present this to the Council’s Health & Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

Statutorily, the report must be presented to the local Health & Wellbeing Board and this took place on 6 October 2025.

The attached report, agreed at the September 2025 meeting of the Safeguarding Adults Board represents reporting in the year April 2024 to March 2025.

The BCP SAB has continued to successfully work together with the Dorset SAB with joint meetings of the main Board and subgroups. Throughout 24-25, BCP SAB has delivered against all priorities which are set out in the annual work plan; this Annual Report summarises what the Board has achieved.

2 separate Annual Reports, one for each of the Boards as they are separately constituted are published.

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. Adult Social Care encourages feedback from a range of sources including complaints, compliments, comments.

This report provides a summary of complaints and compliments, including learning, for BCP Council Adult Social Care from 1^st April 2024 to 31^st March 2025.

At the midpoint of the FutureCare Programme, substantial operational benefits have been delivered. 

These include reducing the number of people moving directly into a residential and nursing home following a stay in a community hospital bed by 30%, increasing the number of people being referred to same day emergency care as an alternative to a hospital stay from a baseline position of 594 people per week to 649 per week and reducing the average length of time people stay in a community hospital or in a short stay care home bed from a baseline position of 38.2 days to a current position of 33.3 days.

However, so far, the programme has only had a limited impact on reducing the length of time people spend in hospital waiting for a care package once they become medically fit.  On 6 October, the average length of time a person was waiting to be discharged from hospital with a care package, was 9.64 days, against a target of 8.07 days.  At the beginning of the programme, the average length of stay was 9.7 days.

Overall, at the beginning of October the programme was on track against its operational benefits trajectory, delivering a projected £12.87m of annual operational benefits, against a target of £12.54m.  

The report provides a summary of the progress made in building INTs across BCP and how the programme is developing to reflect the emerging Neighbourhood Health agenda.

The Palliative and End of Life Care strategy explains what we hope to achieve, and how we’re planning to do that.  This document considers both adult and children’s end of life care.  It aligns our aims and priorities, providing a clear strategy on how we can provide excellent, personalised palliative and end of life care to anyone who needs it, no matter their age, and offer support to each individual and those most important to them. Since the strategy has been approved a group of stakeholders have come together to work with Macmillan to draw in Social Finance to support the implementation of the strategy. Full approval is expected over the winter of 2025/6 and thoughts and questions are welcomed from the committee to support the implementation plan.

This is the annual report of the Statutory Scrutiny Officer on Overview and Scrutiny (O&S) activity within BCP Council.  There is a requirement to report on the work of O&S to the O&S Board and Committees and then to Council.  This promotes visibility of the O&S function and Council ownership of activity and any improvements required. 

The annual report contains a summary and analysis of O&S activity during 2024-25, reflections on working practices and identified improvements to strengthen the O&S function.

This report version is for consideration by the O&S Board and O&S committees, providing opportunity for comment prior to the supply of the final report to Council.  The Council will be the decision maker on any recommendations for change within the report. The final report to Council will be updated to incorporate the views of the O&S Board and Committees on these recommendations.

The Overview and Scrutiny (O&S) Committee is asked to consider and identify work priorities for publication in a Work Plan.

To receive a verbal update from the Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing.