Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Executive

Local Authority Circular LAC(94)16 requires Chief Executives to produce an annual report on the performance of Social Services Departments’ registration and inspection functions. The annual report has to be sent to the Department of Health’s Social Services Inspectorate by 1^st October 2000.  The City Council’s Registration and Inspection Team forms part of the Social Services Department’s Service Standards Unit. 

The Cabinet is asked to endorse the Chief Executive’s Annual Report.

The full Inspection report is attached for Cabinet Members only.

The Cabinet considered a report of the Chief Executive on the annual report on the performance of the Social Services Department’s Registration and Inspection Service, and welcomed the continuing service improvements in the Unit.

It was noted that within the next two years the Service would undergo significant changes as inspection of Under 8s services would transfer to Ofsted and that of adult services would transfer to the National Care Standards Commission from April  2002.

RESOLVED:-

                        That the report be noted.