Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Director – Adult Services

The Assistant Director – Adult Social Care submitted a report (previously circulated) to provide Members with performance data against Key Performance Indicators for 2021-22.

The submitted report provided performance information in line with an indicator set and Scrutiny Committee distribution agreed by Monitoring and Coordination Group on 4 June 2018, and subsequently by Scrutiny Committee Chairs. The indicators scrutinised by this Scrutiny Committee are aligned with key priorities.

The submitted report highlighted that twelve indicators are reported to this Committee, ten on a six-monthly basis, and two annually. Of the ten indicators reported on a six-monthly basis, two indicators showed performance better or the same compared to this point last year (ASC019 and ASC046); three indicators showed a performance not as good as that recorded at this time last year (ASC002, ASC003 and ASC045), and will continue to be monitored and managed; two indicators showed a performance that was the same as the same time last year (ASC049 and ASC050); and three indicators were not comparable and were reviewed at a point in time (ASC208, ASC209 and ASC211).

Members entered into discussion on the reasons for the increase in the number of residents with no ongoing care needs following reablement, the reasoning behind the three indicators which showed that performance was not as good as that recorded at this time last year, and the capacity to address the anticipated increase in future cases of dementia.

Members were also interested to learn whether there had been an increase in the number of residents moving into Care Homes, whether residents were more comfortable to return to Care Homes after the public health situation of recent months, and whether it was anticipated that the performance indicators would return to previous expected levels after Covid.   

RESOLVED – That the performance information provided in the submitted report be noted.