ITEM 2

AT A MEETING of the ADULT SOCIAL CARE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE of the COUNTY COUNCIL held at The Castle Winchester on Wednesday, 23 November 2005

PRESENT

Chairman:

p Councillor R.C. McIntosh

Vice-Chairman

p Councillor E.F. Gale, MBE

Councillors:

Also in attendance Councillor Mrs P.G. Banks (Executive Member for Adult Social Care)

Apologies were received from:

Councillor Chapman as he was attending a School Transport Appeal.

24. DECLARATION OF INTEREST

Members were mindful that, where they believed they had a personal or personal prejudicial interest in any matter to be considered at the meeting, they should normally at the time of the debate declare their interest, and having regard to the circumstances described in paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the County Council's Code of Conduct, consider whether to leave the meeting whilst the matter was discussed.

Councillor Ludlow declared a personal interest in items 6 and 9 as he is Chairman of North Hampshire Primary Care Trust

25. MINUTES

The Minutes of the meeting of the Adult Social Care Policy Review Committee held on 28 September 2005 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

26. CHAIRMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS

(a) Social Services Conference

The Chairman reported that he had recently attended the Social Services
Conference and that there had been some interesting presentations.

(b) Hampshire Now

The Chairman reported that the special issue of Hampshire Now contained
information on Adult Services and urged Members to obtain a copy.

27. MEMBERS' QUESTIONS

There were no Members' questions to this meeting.

28. DEPUTATIONS

There were no deputations to this meeting.

29. HAMPSHIRE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ACTION TEAM (DAAT) UPDATE: TREATMENT PLAN

The Director of Adult Services presented a report giving a background to DAAT Services, the local delivery treatment plan and its funding (Item 6 in the Minute Book). She explained the background of DAAT Services and the national framework for services. She gave details of the Local Delivery Treatment Plan which included Tier l Services; Open Access Services, Criminal Justice Intervention Programme; structured community based services; residential inpatient services; workforce development; undeserved groups; systems infrastructure; users and carers; services for young people and funding.

RESOLVED:

That the report be received and its contents noted.

30. REPROVISION OF RESPITE SERVICES - PIER HOUSE

The Director of Adult Services presented a report on proposals for the provision of respite services from Pier House (Item 7 in the Minute Book). She outlined the consultation procedure for the reprovision of services; the responses that had been received to date; the staff consultation and re-deployment, and how the services currently provided at Pier House would be reprovided and the financial impact of reprovision options. Members were keen to see that Adult Services received 100% of the proceeds of the sale of Pier House.



RESOLVED:

That the report be received and it be a RECOMMENDATION to the Executive Member for Adult Social Care that she requests the Executive Member for Policy and Resources to allow Adult Services 100% of the proceeds of the sale of Pier House.

31. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMPLAINTS AND CUSTOMER CARE SERVICE

The Director of Adult Services presented a report on the complaints and customer care service for the year 2004/05 (Item 8 in the Minute Book). The report covered the whole of the work of the former Social Services Department and therefore included both Children and Adult Services.

RESOLVED:

That the report be received and the work of the complaints and customer care team be commended

32. CONSULTATION ON WIDER REVIEW OF REGULATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

The Director of Adult Services presented a report giving details of the responses given to the Department of Health's consultation on the wider review of regulation of health and Social Care (Item 9 in the Minute Book). She detailed the questions asked and the responses given. Members were concerned at the short length of time allowed for responses to be made but were assured that this was just an initial consultation and that more time would be given during formal consultation.

RESOLVED:

That the responses to the Department of Health's consultation be noted.

33. COMMITTEE'S WORK PROGRAMME

The Director of Adult Services presented the Committee's forthcoming work programme (Item 10 in the Minute Book).

RESOLVED:

That the report be received and noted.

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