Archives for May 2021

An update from Adult Social Services

The Adult Services Panel met with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Community Health Services last month to discuss the Performance Monitoring Report for February 2021 and to receive an update on how the Council’s Policy Commitments translate to Adult Services. The Panel was pleased to hear that in terms of Performance Monitoring […]

Scrutiny Working Group hears 87% of staff ‘Like working from home’

The Workforce Scrutiny Working Group met on 29 March 2021 to look at the impact of the pandemic on the health and wellbeing of staff; how the Council is supporting this; issues around home working; staff sickness; staff turnover; use of agency staff and pressures. The Working Group received an update on the  position the […]

Scrutiny Committee pleased with accelerated plans to tackle homelessness during the pandemic

The Scrutiny Programme Committee met with the Cabinet Member for Homes, Energy & Service Transformation and discussed progress with the implementation of the Homelessness Strategy 2018-22, since adoption by Cabinet in November 2019. The Committee wanted to explore how the new Strategy has delivered improvement to services, advice and support, both in preventing homelessness and […]