Issue - meetings

The Board received a report of the Strategic Director – People, which presented proposals for scrutiny topic areas for the 2022-23 review.

It was noted that the 2021-22 scrutiny review: North West Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (NWADASS) Elected Member Commission: The Impact of Covid-19 on People with Care and Support Needs, their Families, Carers and Communities, was still underway.  The final recommendations from this had been delayed due to pandemic related issues, but the final report would be included on the June agenda.

It was agreed that despite this delay a topic group for 2022-23 should still be identified, so the necessary arrangements could be put in place.    As part of Member involvement in the current business planning process, a range of topic ideas had been identified for consideration:

1)    Approaches to Adult Social Care Workforce Planning;

2)    Provision of Learning Disability Services in Halton; and

3)    Skills and Training Opportunities for Social Care Provider Staff.

Members discussed these proposals and a suggestion was made to link numbers one and three together, this was agreed.  An outline brief for the topic areas would be brought to the next Board meeting in June for final approval.

RESOLVED:  That the Board agrees

1)    ‘Approaches to Adult Social Care Workforce Planning’ and ‘Skills and Training Opportunities for Social Care Provider Staff’ be selected as the topic group for the year 2022-23; and

2)    all Members of the Board were invited to join the membership of the topic group.