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EXECUTIVE KEY AND NON-KEY DECISIONS

Meeting: 04/06/2019 - Adult Social Care, Health and Housing Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Item 12)

Executive Forward Plan

There are currently no items on the Executive Forward Plan relating to Adult Social Care, Health and Housing.

Minutes:

There were no items on the Executive Forward Plan relating to Adult Social Care, Health and Housing.

 

The Chairman asked Councillor Dale Birch, Executive Member for Adult Services, Health and Housing to provide a verbal update for the Panel as to what he was working on.

 

Councillor Dale Birch, Executive Member for Adult Services, Health and Housing advised the Panel that his key focus areas were:

·        Forestcare and the Emergency Duty Team (EDT)

·        The next phases of Heathlands to make sure the business case got fully and properly ratified.

·        Making input into the PCN conversations

·        Ellie Eghtedar, Interim Director: Housing had obtained resources to deliver a plan to ensure the homeless count in November should be considerably less than 19 and that, if it wasn’t, everyone had a plan.

·        How could a demand led service predict, not just forecast, but PREDICT levels of demand.

·        The Dashboard was hoped to be able to provide trended data to better inform decisions.

·        He was keen that commissioning and the way contracting with providers was done and the way the market was created and managed; would be a key focus.

·        On health, what integration really meant needed to be understood.  It meant so much to so many people,

·        As a service provider, the Council had lots of partners and, as elected members they would be required to jointly commission things that might not be as strong and deep to scrutinise as if it was solely Bracknell Forest’s own.

·        The right protocols and the right ways to work with partners would be crucial. 

·        There was consultation on legislation for delivery of the ICS.  The question was how you integrated a service based on assessed need and a service that is free at the point of delivery. 

·        He was keen to understand how and what the changing legal environment was, and what Bracknell Forest would have the legal right and responsibility to deliver, (alone) and what we would have the right and responsibility to jointly deliver.

·        He asked for Members’ input into the Bracknell Forest housing strategy at an early stage so that Members could be involved and contribute throughout the process.

·        The annual report for Downshire Homes was required to go to the O&S Commission for scrutiny and was presented by the Chief Executive of Downshire Homes.

 

The Chairman gave thanks to Councillor Dale Birch, all officers and all Panel Members for their attendance and valuable contributions at the meeting and advised Members that there was an open communication line to him to feed ideas and suggestions.


 

Contact Information

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Email: committee@bracknell-forest.gov.uk