Health & Social Care Committee

Tuesday 5 June 2007 at 3.00 pm

Present:  Provost McCormick, Councillors Ahlfeld, Brooks, Fyfe, Grieve, McCabe, McIlwee, McKenzie, MacLeod and Rebecchi.

Chair:  Councillor McIlwee presided.

In attendance:  Corporate Director Education and Social Care, Head of Social Work Services, Head of Community Care and Strategic Planning, Head of Support and Development, Mr F Jarvie (for Head of Legal & Administration), Mr M Thomson and Ms A Edmiston (for Head of Finance) and Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs.

The following paragraphs are submitted for information only, having been dealt with under the powers delegated to the Committee.

399

Social Work Services Quarterly Performance Information

399

There was submitted a report by the Corporate Director Education and Social Care providing quarterly performance management information in respect of Social Work Services.

Decided:

(1)                                                                                                   that the Committee endorse the information contained in the report; and

(2)                                                                                                   that the Committee note the service targets which are being met and those areas where improvement is required.

400

Homelessness Strategy 2007-2009

400

There was submitted a report by the Corporate Director Education and Social Care requesting the Committee to approve the draft Homelessness Strategy 2007-2009 set out in Appendix A to the report.

Decided:  that the draft Homelessness Strategy 2007-2009 set out in Appendix A to the report be approved subject to substitution of the term “furnished accommodation” for “scatter flat”.                                                

401

Inverclyde Joint Care Board – Minute of Meeting of 22 February 2007

401

There was submitted minute of the meeting of the Inverclyde Joint Care Board of 22 February 2007.

Decided:

(1)                                                                                                   that the minute be noted; and

(2)                                                                                                   that a presentation be made to the next meeting of the Committee on the Telecare Development Programme.

It was agreed in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that the business involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the respective paragraphs of Part I of Schedule 7(A) of the Act as are set opposite each item.

Item                                                                                                Paragraph(s)

Contracts Relating to the Provision of Social Care Services 6 & 8

Individual Call-Off Contract Relating to Merchiston Hospital 3 & 9

Reprovisioning

Individual Call-Off Contract Relating to Merchiston Hospital 3 & 9

Reprovisioning

402

Contracts Relating to the Provision of Social Care Services

402

There was submitted a report by the Corporate Director Education and Social Care providing information relating to the current Social Work Services contractual position as at 1 April 2007.

Councillor MacLeod declared an interest in this item as Chair of Inverclyde Council on Disability and took no part in its consideration or decision.

Decided: that the information relating to the current Social Work Services contracts as at 1 April 2007, detailed in the Appendix to the report be noted.

403

Individual Call-Off Contract Relating to Merchiston Hospital Reprovisioning (Mr R)

403

There was submitted a report by the Corporate Director Education and Social Care requesting the Committee to approve a care and support package for an individual with complex and challenging needs who is being resettled from Merchiston Hospital prior to its closure in July 2007.

Decided:

(1)                                                                                                   that approval be given to the care and support package being provided by Quarriers on an individual call-off contract basis under Rule 3.2 of the Council’s Standing Orders, Rules of Procedure, Contracts for Procurement of Social Care Services;  and

(2)                                                                                                   that a final report be submitted to the next meeting following the closure of Merchiston Hospital.

404

Individual Call-Off Contract Relating to Merchiston Hospital Reprovisioning (Mr M)

404

There was submitted a report by the Corporate Director Education and Social Care requesting the Committee to approve a care and support package for an individual with complex and challenging needs who is being resettled from Merchiston Hospital prior to its closure in July 2007.

Decided: that approval be given to the care and support package being provided by Quarriers on an individual call-off contract basis under Rule 3.2 of the Council’s Standing Orders, Rules of Procedure, Contracts for Procurement of Social Care Services.