Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Director - Adult Services

The Assistant Director, Adult Services, submitted a report (previously circulated) to provide Members with performance data against Key Performance Indicators for 2022-23.

The submitted report outlined performance information in line with an indicator set and Scrutiny Committee distribution agreed by the Monitoring and Coordination Group on 4 June 2018, and subsequently agreed by Scrutiny Committee Chairs. It was stated that the indicators were aligned with key priorities. Twelve indicators were reported to this Committee, ten on a six monthly basis and two annually.

It was reported that, of the ten indicators reported at six months, one of the indicators showed performance better than at this time last year;  four indicators showed performance which had declined in comparison with the same period last year, yet was still continuing to be monitored and managed; two indicators showed performance that was the same as at this time last year, and that three indicators were not comparable, as were reviewed at a point in time.

It was reported that the two indicators recorded annually (ASC054 - The proportion of people who use Adult Care services who find it easy to find information about services – and ASC055 - The proportion of people who are carers who find it easy to find information about services) were not included within the report as the 2021-22 results of the survey had appeared in the Mid-Year Scrutiny Report.

Members entered into discussion on increase in the number of recorded safeguarding concerns, and the reasons for this, and the number of strategy meetings undertaken. Members were also keen to understand more about Direct Payments, and how this could be better promoted, with possible links to GP practices and Social Prescribers.

Members scrutinised the Key Performance Indicators in relation to residential and nursing care and were keen to explore the projected cost increases in future years.

Discussion ensued on the decline in the proportion of adults with a learning disability who reside at home, and the proportion of adults with learning disabilities in paid employment, and examined the reasons around these reductions, with Members keen to know whether lessons could be learnt from exemplars, such as Hartlepool Borough Council.   

RESOLVED – That the performance information provided within the submitted report be reviewed and noted.