Issue - meetings

Councillor Palmer submits a report that provides Members of the Council’s rating of the Adult Social Care annual self-assessment for 2008/09 by the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC), which is the regulatory body for care services. Cabinet is asked to note the recommendations set out in Paragraph 3 of the Report.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board held on 21 January 2010 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Palmer submitted a report that provided Members, of the Council’s rating of the Adult Social Care annual self-assessment for 2008/09 by the Care Quality Commission.

Councillor Palmer explained that this was a new rating system and he was very proud that the Authority had been awarded the second highest category, which was “Performing well – consistently delivering above the minimum requirements for people”. He added that this represented good strong progress and there were strategies in place to deal with any areas for improvement.  He further commented that the Council was determined to strive for an excellent rating, to benefit those who used the service.

Councillor Palmer also noted that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board had noted the report and endorsed the recommendations.

RESOLVED:

                        that Cabinet:

1)      notes the overall CQC grade – ‘Well and consistently delivering above the minimum requirements’ awarded to Leicester in 2008/09; and

2)      notes the actions the areas for improvement as detailed in Appendix A, which will be implemented to move the Council to an Excellent rated Adult Social Care Service for 2009/10.