Decision details

The Local Account is the Council’s statement to the local community and service users about the quality of adult social care services in Barking and Dagenham.

The Board will be asked to approve the Local Account 2013/14. 

The Board:

(i)  Noted and commented on the Local Account document and key summaries appended to the report.

(ii)  Approved the Adult Social Care Local Account 2013/14 for publication, in order that the views of service users, partners and the community can be sought.

(iii)  Encouraged Partner organisations to contact the Corporate Director of Adult and Community Services if they had any views on the target audience(s) for future Local Account reports.

(iv)  Would support the trial of multi-media approaches to future iterations of the Local Account, and to provide the information to the public.