Issue - meetings

Report CSD19004

The Committee considered matters arising from previous meetings and its forward work programme.

With regard to Minute 47a: Bromley Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2017/18 from the meeting of Adult Care and Health PDS Committee on 21^st November 2018, the Chairman advised Members that the Bromley Safeguarding Adults Board Manager was arranging an adult safeguarding training session for Members and that the date would be confirmed shortly.  Another Member underlined the importance of providing adult safeguarding training to Local Authority staff, including those within the Housing Service to support them in working with vulnerable Bromley residents.  In considering Minute 42: Update from the Director: Adult Social Care, a Co-opted Member advised that she was working with the Engagement Strategy Manager (ECHS) on revising the ‘easy-read’ Direct Payments leaflet to ensure it was fully accessible and had offered to provide support to the Local Authority on using Image Bank, and the Chairman requested a further update on this workstream at the next meeting of Adult Care and Health PDS Committee on 7^th March 2019.

In response to a question from a Member regarding the forward work programme, the Interim Director: Programmes confirmed that a range of robust measures were in place to monitor contracts and commissioning activity including the Contract Register and Contracts Database which was reported to the Committee on a quarterly basis.  Annual reports that reviewed both performance and service quality were provided to Adult Care and Health PDS Committee on all key contracts, and ad hoc reports were presented to the Committee where any major concerns were identified relating to a contract or commissioning issue. 

A Member suggested that the provision in place to support transition from child to adult mental health services be considered at a future meeting.  The Member also proposed that Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust be invited to attend a future meeting to outline the discharge process from in-patient mental health services and how service users were supported in the community.  The Interim Chief Executive was pleased to report that the Joint Mental Health Strategy developed in collaboration with the Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group would be presented to the next meeting of Adult Care and Health PDS Committee on 7^th March 2019.

The Chairman advised the Committee that the meeting of Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee due to take place on 29^th January 2019 had been postponed due to the unavailability of key health partners and a new date would be confirmed shortly.

RESOLVED that matters arising from previous meetings and the forward work programme be noted.