Issue - meetings

To consider and adopt the report of the Working Group of the Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel which reviewed adult safeguarding in the context of Personalisation of Adult Social Care.

Councillor Mrs Birch had not been present at the beginning of the meeting when declarations of interest had been given.  She declared a personal interest as spouse of the Executive Member for Adult Services, Housing and Health.

The ‘Staying Safe’ report of the review of safeguarding adults in the context of the personalisation of adult social care was presented to the Commission.  Subject to the addition of a further recommendation concerning the development of a Self-Neglect Policy for Bracknell Forest, the report had been agreed by the Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel.

The lead member, Councillor Turrell, referred to the working group meetings held, the officers and service users interviewed and a visit to West Sussex County Council to explore best practice in terms of safeguarding adults in the context of the personalisation agenda. 

West Sussex was selected as it was a council that performed highly in terms of personalisation and safeguarding adults and it had been one of thirteen national individual budget pilot sites and had therefore advanced two years further into the process than other local authorities.  West Sussex had identified self-neglect as a new and growing problem and had Positive Risk Enablement and Self-Neglect policies in place.

Councillor Turrell expressed the working group’s thanks to Andrea Carr for her support to the working group and in the preparation of the report.

The Commission adopted the report to send formally to the Executive Member for Adult Services, Housing and Health