Issue - meetings

The Director of Health and Wellbeing submitted, for information, the response from the Safer Rotherham Partnership Domestic Abuse Priority Group to the Improving Lives Select Commission regarding the Scrutiny Review of Domestic Abuse Services.

The Select Commission had undertaken the review to establish how different agencies worked together in Rotherham to support people who had experienced domestic abuse.  It wished to address any Service gaps and areas of duplication to identify opportunities for working more effectively and efficiently and to ensure agencies could respond to future challenges.

Of the Review’s 20 recommendations,

2 deferred                                         

17 accepted                                     

1 agreed subject to funding available     

It was noted that Domestic Abuse now came under the portfolio of the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care.

Resolved:-  (1)  That the report be noted.

(2)  That the minutes of the Domestic Abuse Priority Group be submitted to the Cabinet Member.