Adult Social Care (ASC) and Community Safety

Scrutiny Committee

Future work at a glance Updated: January 2015

This list is updated after each meeting of the scrutiny committee. Follow us on Twitter for updates: @ESCCScrutiny

Items that appear regularly at committee

The Council’s

The latest version of the Council’s Forward Plan is included on each scrutiny committee agenda. The Forward Plan lists all the key County Council decisions that are to be taken within the next few months together with contact information to find out more. It is updated monthly.

The purpose of doing this is to help committee Members identify important issues for more detailed scrutiny before key decisions are taken. This has proved to be significantly more effective than challenging a decision once it has been taken. As a last resort, the call-in procedure is available if scrutiny Members think a Cabinet or Lead Member decision has been taken incorrectly.

Requests for further information about individual items on the Forward Plan should be addressed to the listed contact. Possible scrutiny issues should be raised with the scrutiny team or committee Chairman, ideally before a scrutiny committee meeting.

Committee work programme

This provides an opportunity for the committee to review the scrutiny work programme for future meetings and to highlight any additional issues they wish to add to the programme.

Future committee agenda items		Author
18 June 2015
Community Safety – Annual Review	To undertake the committee’s annual review of community safety strategy and performance. Report to include an update on work to address domestic abuse, specifically multiagency management of domestic abuse and the availability of additional resources from the Police and Crime Commissioner to increase capacity of domestic abuse support.		Louisa Havers, Head of Performance, Engagement and Safer Communities
Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service	To consider a progress report on the new Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service, one year on from its establishment in April 2014.		Daniel Parsonage, Substance Misuse Commissioning Manager
Care Act – implications for East Sussex	An update on the implications of the Care Act, to include an assessment of future pressures, update on eligibility and the end of year position.		Keith Hinkley, Director of Adult Social Care and Health
17 September 2015
Safeguarding vulnerable adults	To consider the annual report on safeguarding vulnerable adults in East Sussex.		Angie Turner, Head of Adult Safeguarding.
Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources (RPPR)	Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources is the Council’s business and budget planning process. The Committee will begin its input to the 2015/16 process by considering existing portfolio and savings plans and requesting any further information needed to inform its consideration of 2015/16 plans later in the year.		Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Community Safety, Keith Hinkley, Director of Adult Social Care and Health, Samantha Williams, Assistant Director
12 November 2015
Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources (RPPR)	Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources is the Council’s business and budget planning process. The Committee will pursue any questions raised in the September meeting to assist them in scrutinising the more detailed portfolio plan as it emerges in December 2015.		Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Community Safety, Keith Hinkley, Director of Adult Social Care and Health, Samantha Williams, Assistant Director

Current scrutiny reviews and other work underway

Indicative dates

East Sussex Better Together (ESBT)

Joint Scrutiny Board established with representatives from two other scrutiny committees to consider the ESBT programme and specific policy and service developments arising from it.

Board established – December 2014

First meeting – January 2015

Potential future scrutiny work

(Proposals and ideas for future scrutiny topics appear here to be prioritised in due course)

Extra care housing (2015)

To consider a progress update following the Committee (November 2013) noting that extra care housing schemes have had demonstrable success in East Sussex and agreeing that all attempts to expand these schemes across the County should be pursued.

Care Act implementation

Committee to receive further updates on implementation at key stages (requested following initial report/presentation in September 2014)

Learning Disability Directly Provided Services (DPS) Strategy

· Any service changes arising from this strategy to be considered by Committee DPS Boards as and when required.

· The Committee may also wish to consider a briefing on the overall strategy (agreed by Lead Member September 2014)

Background / information reports available to the Committee (Items in this list appear on committee agendas when proposed for scrutiny by committee members)		Authors/ Date available
Performance and risk management monitoring	Performance and risk monitoring are an integral part of scrutiny. The committee is alerted to the relevant quarterly reports that Cabinet and lead Members receive. Members can then suggest matters for scrutiny to investigate in more detail. In the performance reports, achievement against individual performance targets is assessed as either ‘Red’, ‘Amber’ or ‘Green’ (‘RAG’): · ‘Green’ means that the performance measure is on target to be achieved · ‘Amber’ means that there is concern about the likelihood of achieving the performance measure by the end of the year · ‘Red’ means that the performance measure is assessed as inappropriate or unachievable. The ‘Red’ and ‘Amber’ indicators also include further commentary and the details of any proposed corrective action. A similar RAG indicator system is used in the risk reports to indicate the overall score for each risk indicator that takes account of impact and likelihood. Requests for further information about individual items in the performance or risks reports should be addressed to the listed contact. Possible scrutiny issues should be raised with the scrutiny team or committee Chairman.	Every quarter / see Cabinet papers
Reablement	A progress report on the development of reablement services. Reablement aims to help people to regain their skills, confidence and independence by working with them to make the most of their abilities within their home environment. It also reduces the need for help from others. It may include occupational therapy, help from the Sensory Impairment team or support from the Living at Home Service (LAHS). In particular to consider the points and observations made during the 2013/14 RPPR process: • reablement provision has not yet realised its full potential. Further opportunities to expand reablement schemes will become available through the Better Care Fund whilst others would come about through broader engagement with the market and payment regimes linked to outcomes.	Shane Heber, Head of Directly Provided Services, Natasha Cooper, Intermediate Care Programme Manager and Paul Welch, Operations Manager (Committee also requested OT input) Reablement now a key part of ESBT
Stakeholder participation	A separate annual update on stakeholder engagement activity undertaken by the department is no longer being produced as examples are included in the ASC Local Account and the Council’s Annual Report. The department’s regular consultation updates are circulated to the Committee for information. Last edition: November 2014.	Janette Lyman, Community Relations Manager As updates are available.
Dementia Strategy	Progress reports on local dementia strategy to the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) are circulated for information (last report March 2013). Last report circulated 1/12/14	As and when reports are received by HOSC Next report due March 2015
Telecare project	An update on the Telecare pilot project evaluations and plans for the future of Telecare/Telehealth. (See also case studies in the report on the Adult Social Care and Community Safety Scrutiny Committee agenda of 6 March 2014, Appendix 5	TBA
Annual report on complaints	Annual report to be circulated to the Committee each year, for information in the first instance	Janette Lyman, Community Relations Manager September 2015

Enquiries: Scrutiny Team

Author: Claire Lee, Scrutiny Lead Officer

Telephone: 01273 335517

Email: claire.lee@eastsussex.gov.uk

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