Ethnicity of older people receiving an assessment and service
To consider the proportions of the older population who receive a social care assessment and subsequent service based on a proportion of the whole population.
Papers to follow
Minutes:
The Panel were shown 2 performance indicators:
E47 - Ethnicity of Older People receiving an assessment
E48 – Ethnicity of Older People receiving services following an assessment
The Older People’s service is comfortably within the top performing banding set by the Department of Health for both of these Performance indicators.
If the service notes any ethnic group where the numbers are not represented on a proportional basis then it looks to understand why this is the case.
An Equalities Impact Assessment was recently done which showed that Chinese people were under represented; this is now being looked at.
This is also the case where some ethnic groups are less represented in taking up Direct Payments.
The panel looked at assessment and service data from 06/07 and 07-Jan 08 in comparison with the proportion of the population from each ethnic group as shown on the 2001 census.
This is broadly representative throughout the data.
Points of Discussion
Noted that there may be variances in what people would class themselves as on a form and what people would class themselves as on a one to one basis with a professional e.g. British or Geek-Cypriot with British citizenship.
People are sometimes frightened to complain to social services as they fear that they will have their service withdrawn.