Issue - meetings

Anne Bristow, Corporate Director of Adult and Community Services, presented the report which provided historical details of the performance, and highlights what we did well and what we could have done better, spend in 2013/14 and statutory complaints report and also plans for 2014/15.  Anne Bristow commented that this was now the third Local Account and wondered who it was being aimed at and what it was meant to achieve, bearing in mind it was historic information, and the response to it from the community in previous years was low.  The Chair concurred with these comments and felt that the Local Account was not a living document but it was a reasonable snapshot of the service in the previous year. 

Councillor Carpenter provided an insight into the number of learners and their learning and disability needs at the Adult College of which 280 learners were registered for additional learner support, 178 of whom are DDA registered and 113 have learning difficulties and disabilities.

Discussion was also held on how the Local Account could be made more attractive and useful to stakeholders.

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.