Meeting documents

Details of all Members’ interests in District, Town and Parish Councils will be displayed in the meeting room. The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via the Community Governance team.

There were no declarations of interest.

The Committee is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

The minutes of the meeting held on 25 January 2017 were accepted as being accurate and were signed by the Chairman. 

The Chairman will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting. These questions may be taken during the meeting, when the relevant agenda item is considered, at the Chairman’s discretion.  

There were seven public questions.

Nigel Behan asked the following questions in relation to Item 5:

Q1 a) When this Committee went into private session (press and public excluded) at the end of June last year was there any indication that Dimensions UK Ltd would offer to close day centres,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

To receive a verbal report.

The Committee received a verbal update from the Director of Adult Social Services regarding the transfer of the Learning Disability Provider Service (LDPS) to a Social Enterprise – Dimensions.  The Director began by thanking members of the public for their questions and confirming that formal written responses will be sent  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

To receive this report.

The Committee received a report from the Head of Mental Health Services with an update on Mental Health Services for adults and their development in Somerset.

The Committee heard that significant progress has been made since the last report. The performance and quality of the services commissioned by Somerset CCG  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

To receive this report. 

The Committee considered a report from the Deputy Director of Quality, Safety & Governance, Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).  The report provided an overarching update to the Committee on quality, safety and patient experience of health services in Somerset.

The Committee were advised to consider the following key areas: Serious Incident  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

To receive this report. 

The Committee considered this report that provided Members with an update on performance across the organisation.  There are four "Council" segments which seek to measure how well the council manages its relationships with partners, staff and the public and how good its ‘internal management’ processes are. There is one segment  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

To receive this report. 

The Committee received a report from the Adults and Health Operations Director. The report summarised the current performance of Adult Social Care in Somerset and provided benchmarking data showing how Somerset’s data compares to other Councils in Somerset’s ’family group’.

The Committee heard that analysis of the data presents a  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

To consider this report. 

The committee received a report from the Strategic Commissioning Manager, Adults and Health which provided an update on the decision to abandon the Reable Somerset procurement. 

On 14 December 2016, the Cabinet decided to award contracts (by two geographical lots) to Provider A for the provision of Reablement Services. 

Officers  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.

To receive an update from the Governance Manager, Scrutiny and discuss any items for the work programme. To assist the discussion, attached are:

·        The Committee’s work programme

·        The Cabinet’s forward plan

The Committee considered and noted the Cabinet Forward Plan of proposed Key Decisions.

The Committee requested the following changes to the work programme:

·        A performance update from Weston Hospital

·        An update regarding gynaecology waiting times and the programme of recovery at Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust

·        Regular Adult Social Care Performance  ...  view the full minutes text for item 10.

The Chairman may raise any items of urgent business.

There were no other items of business.