Agenda and draft minutes

County Councillor P. Jones was elected as Chair.

County Councillor P. Farley was elected as Vice Chair.

Apologies for absence were received from County Councillors L. Guppy, D. Evans, D. Blakebrough and Mr. K. Plow.

County Councillor P. Farley declared a non-prejudicial interest in regard to Item 5, Population Needs Assessment, as a Trustee of Chepstow Senior Citizens Welfare Trust.

Context

The Social Services and Wellbeing Act (2014) places a statutory duty on local authorities and health boards to prepare a regional population needs assessment (PNA) in relation to people requiring care and support. A draft PNA has been jointly developed across the region (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen) by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and the Gwent transformation Team. The PNA sets out the common priorities across the region and suggested actions.

The Social Services and Well-being Act provides the statutory framework to deliver integrated health and social services and preventative services to support people and carers of all ages, as well as families and communities.

The Committee received an overview of the PNA and an update on Next Steps.

Key Issues

The purpose of the PNA is to ensure that local authorities and Local Health Boards jointly produce a clear and specific evidence base in relation to care and support needs and carers’ needs, to underpin the delivery of statutory support functions and inform planning and operational decisions.

The PNA will dovetail with the well-being assessment being produced on behalf of the Public Service Board as part of our response to the Well-being of Future Generations Act. That PNA will be examined separately by the PSB Scrutiny Committee before both are presented at Council on 20th March.

The PNA should enable the council to focus on preventative approaches to care and support needs and provide the information required to support resource and budgetary decisions; ensuring services and outcomes are targeted, sustainable, effective and efficient.

A draft regional PNA has been developed and is currently out for consultation.

The main points to note:

The PNA will contain the high level priorities and suggested actions but the data graphs will be included in technical appendices – the PNA will read as executive summary and not include a large number of data graphs The PNA will have to be signed off and agreed by individual local authority councils and the health board by March 31st 2017 and subsequently published on individual websites

The PNA was developed through extensive engagement with the regional citizen panel, provider forum and regional executive director leadership group; as well as local groups such as youth forums, older people’s forums, carers groups and parenting networks. Engagement was also supported by MCC and PSB through the ’Our Monmouthshire’. Some of the emerging areas of interest are below but further engagement is planned during the consultation period:

An ageing population brings many opportunities, however there are also challenges for service provision and increases in the number of people living with long term conditions.

Loneliness is a growing concern.

Monmouthshire has high levels of social capital and volunteering. By taking an asset and placed based approach there is an opportunity to improving well-being.

Increasing support is required for Looked After Children

Adverse childhood experiences have a negative impact on people’s long term health and economic prospects and can be perpetuated through the generations.

Member Scrutiny

Following presentation of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

This item was deferred to the meeting of Children and Young People Select Committee on 16th of February 2017 and was not discussed at this meeting.