Issue - meetings

Further to Minute No. 22 of 27^th April, 2016, Sue Wilson, Performance and Planning, presented a report detailing recent and current external audits and inspections including the details of arrangements that were in place regarding the accountability and governance for implementing any recommendations that arose.

The following update was given:-

Adult Social Care

-          Treefields Close (Learning Disability Respite Service) – The outstanding recommendation regarding the Manager’s registration had been completed and confirmed by the CQC in July, 2016

-          Quarry Hill Road (Learning Disability Respite Service) –The jointly management arrangement with Treefields Close had been formally signed off and confirmed in July 2016 when the current Manager’s registration was finalised

-          Netherfield Court (intermediate care provider) - Closed in September 2016 with Lord Hardy Court and Davies Court taking on the role of providing residential intermediate care.  Netherfield’s last CQC inspection had resulted in it being awarded an overall rating of Good with 1 action recorded with respect to the way consent was obtained and recorded.  Immediate action was taken to ensure client files recorded this.  Staff from Netherfield had been redeployed to Davies and Lord Hardy with both Managers being made aware of the actions taken by Netherfield with respect to the CQC requirements and had adopted them in their own services

-          Park Hill (Learning Disability Residential Care Provider) – Service currently managed by the same person who managed Treefields and Quarry Hill.  An application had been made with CQC to add Park Hill to her registration

-          Home Enabling - Inspected on 7^th July 2016 and rated as Good overall.  No recommended actions

-          Davies Court (Elderly Residential provider) – Inspected on 24^th August, 2016, and awarded an overall rating of Good  although improvements were identified in the recording of its response to service users who have a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DoLS) in place.  The service had undertaken an audit of files to ensure the correct documentation was in place

-          Adult Services had a good compliance record with standards subject to inspection.  Governance arrangements remained under ongoing review and the Directorate’s development programme was not subject to the enhanced governance arrangements applied within the Transformation Board

-          Housing Service – no inspections or recommendations since the last report in April 2016

Children and Young People’s Improvement Plan

-          Improvement Plan revised in May 2016 following an intense period of change and improvement within Children’s Services

-          Revised Improvement Plan provided a refocus on the priority actions to ensure they mapped against the Ofsted judgements/ recommendations/findings and provided the opportunity to ensure that realists RAG ratings were noted for each action

-          The 26 recommendations from the OFSTED inspection would remain in place and “open” in the refreshed Plan until the Secretary of State for the Department of Education had made a decision for Rotherham to come out of intervention and satisfied that all the requirements had been met

-          Focus of the Plan to put in place a sustainable  ...  view the full minutes text for item 37