Agenda item

To receive updates from the Chairs of the Select Commission on work undertaken and planned for the future.

Improving Places Select Commission Update:

The school road safety review had another meeting scheduled for that Friday to agree on the plan going forward.

Health Select Commission Update:

The commission scrutinised the following items during its 31 July 2025 meeting:

• The ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services) Peer Review
• The Healthwatch Annual Report
• The Yorkshire Cancer Research White Rose Report Update.

The Menopause Workshop took place on 16 September 2025 and was a well-attended and meaningful session, feedback from which was being prepared and would be brought to OSMB in due course.

Further evidence gathering sessions for the Access to Contraception Review took place on September 12^th and 23^rd, and finally October 8^th, 2025.  Draft recommendations have been developed, and the draft report was currently being prepared and would be shared with Health Select Commission and OSMB in due course.

The commission scrutinised the following items during its 2 October 2025 meeting:

• Physical Activity for Health (Sport England)
• TRFT Annual Report
• How Did We Do - Adult Social Care Local Account (For Information Only)
• Rotherham Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-2030 (For Information Only)

At its meeting on 20 November 2025, the Commission was scheduled to scrutinise the following items:

• Mental Health Strategy (Pre-decision Scrutiny)
• Place Partners Winter Planning
• Health and Wellbeing Board Annual Report (For Information Only)

Also, in conjunction with the Improving Lives Select Commission, an Unpaid Carer’s Strategy Workshop had been planned for 28 November 2025.

Councillor McKiernan sought clarification on the position of Healthwatch and if it had been considered?  The Chair of Health Select Commission responded that the Commission had discussed the role of the council in what was expected to happen going forward. It was confirmed that Healthwatch was going to be phased out.

Improving Lives Select Commission:

Since the last Improving Lives update to OSMB in September, the Commission had received and scrutinised an Annual Update on Child Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Members of Health Select Commission (HSC) were invited to join the meeting for that item. One additional HSC member attended the meeting.

Overall, the Commission were happy with the CAMHS Update, and resolved the following:

• That a further update on Children and Young People’s mental health and wellbeing be included on the ILSC work programme for 2026-2027.
• Requested that information relating to the following be included in future CAMHS updates to the Commission:

o   Additional data and information relating to performance and outcomes.

o   Further information relating to children in care.

o   Further information of the support available to children who are electively home educated.

• Requested that specific data relating to the eating disorder pathway and the most recent timescales and waiting times be provided to the Commission.
• Requested that further information and specific numbers relating to the Children and Young People’s Crisis pathway and the 99% of cases seen within expectation be provided to the Commission.

At its meeting in November, the Commission was to scrutinise the following:

• An update on the Looked After Children’s Sufficiency Strategy 2023-2028.

The Chair of Health Select Commission asked whether there had been any scope for CAMHS to return to Health Select, noting that the mental health strategy was an important part of their work. The Governance Manager responded that, at that time, there was no scope for CAMHS to return to Health Select, as the terms of reference had been drafted in such a way that CAMHS fell within the remit of a different select commission. However, this did not preclude members of Health Select from joining that particular session and being involved in the discussion.