Issue - meetings

That Members approve following review, the report outline and priorities for next year with a final draft to be presented to the Committee in June.

The Planning and Development Officer explained that the Annual Report was a requirement of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.  She explained that the report they were currently working on covered the period from March 2022 until April 2023 and set out the Council’s improvement journey over that time and the priorities for the coming year and would be published in the same format as the 2021/22.   She informed Members that they were waiting for further information but there was a likelihood that the guidance would change so the format of next year’s report may look very different than in previous years.  She advised that once the draft report had been prepared it would be presented to this Committee on 8^th June 2023 with the aim that it was approved in July 2023 ready for publication and available to the public in both Welsh and English in September 2023.

The Commissioning Manager clarified the concerns of the Members by advising that the meeting today was not reporting on previous priorities.  Instead the aim was to establish if they were happy that priorities identified by the Portfolio moving into next year were correct before they were finally written up in the same format as in previous years using the headings that had been proposed which were themed on the population needs assessment, older people, carers, children and young people etc.  She reiterated what the Planning & Development Officer had said about the draft report being presented to the meeting in June for Members’ approval which would be clearly laid out with what they had achieved alongside the priorities moving into next year, but stressed that amendments could only be made up until when it went to Cabinet in July to meet the publication deadline.  She explained that other priorities would be picked up during the normal working practice and would probably be reported in next year’s report.

            The recommendation in the report was moved by Councillor Mackie and seconded by Councillor Claydon.

RESOLVED:

That following review, Members approved the report outline and priorities for next year with a final draft to be presented to the Committee in June.