Agenda item

Report of the Chair of the Care Homes in Special Measures (Executive Safeguarding Arrangements) Task and Finish Review Group

The Chair of the Care Homes in Special Measures (Executive Safeguarding Arrangements) Task and Finish Group submitted a report (previously circulated) to provide an update on the work of the Care Homes in Special Measures (Executive Safeguarding Arrangements) Task and Finish Group.

The submitted report advised that at a meeting of this Committee on 21 June 2022, Members requested that a piece of work be undertaken to allow Members to receive information on those Care Homes in ‘Special Measures’, and to understand the reasons as to why those Care Homes had entered Executive Safeguarding Arrangements. It was reported that the Task and Finish Group met on 8 November 2022, and a note of the meeting, together with the recommendations of the Group, were appended to the submitted report.

It was noted that ‘Special Measures’ was not the appropriate term to describe this process, and that the correct terminology was ‘Executive Safeguarding processes’.

RESOLVED – (a) That this Committee receive a six-monthly report on those Care Home to which executive safeguarding processes currently applied.

(b) That the CQC be approached with a view that representatives attend a future meeting of this Committee, and provide a presentation on the role of the CQC and respond to questions from Members.