Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and the Corporate Director of Adult Social Care and Health and to consider and endorse the final version of the Local Account before it is signed off by the Cabinet Member.

Ms S Smith, Head of Performance and Information Management, and Ms T Easdown, Project Officer, Performance and Information Management, were in attendance for this item.

1.            Ms Smith introduced the report and referred to the Member briefing which has been held recently. Ms Smith extended her thanks to Ms Easdown who produced the report.

2.            Ms Smith said that the report looked at key improvements across Adult Social Care and would be widely distributed.  The document would be available on the County Council website, together with a short video.  It would also be on social media, including Twitter and Facebook, making it easier to access. Adult Social Care had shared the document previously with the Kent Learning Disability Partnership Board and various formats would be produced, including an easy-read version.

3.            In response to a request, Ms Smith said future years’ reports would include a comparison of costs against those of previous years and undertook to add these to the current document before it was published.

4.            Members welcomed the clarity of the report and commented on the following:-

a)    the Member briefing had been most useful and they asked that this be an annual event; and

b)    it was suggested that the video be linked to YouTube.

5.            RESOLVED that the final draft of the annual Local Account document be endorsed for sign off by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care.