Issue - meetings

To provide an overview of the proposed restructuring of Adult Services & Commissioning business unit and Safeguarding & Strategic Services’ business unit and seek agreement for some restructure decisions in  this service to be made by delegated authority by the Director in consultation with the Chair of the General Purposes Committee following consultation and consideration of the equality impact assessments.

The Director of Adult, Culture and Community introduced the report which set out the proposed restructure of Adult services and Commissioning business unit and Safeguarding & Strategic Services. Essentially these two services were merging to become a single Adults service which would mean the deletion of one head of service post.   The new structure of the service  would respond to :

• Promoting a borough where every adult had an equal chance of having a healthy safe and fulfilling life

• The current challenges placed on adult social care which involved considerable reductions in grant funding

• Changes within a framework of new policy directives from central government

The service would in turn develop a clear balance within available resources, of universal targeted and specialist provision, including the introduction of personalisation.  The report further set out the strategic direction and the priorities for the service and listed the staffing restructures to be undertaken.  Some of these  decisions were to be considered at a future committee meeting and others  proposed to be taken by delegated authority by the Director of the service in consultation with the Chair of the General Purposes Committee. However, following distribution of the report and consultation with the Employee side the Director of Adults, Community and Culture service proposed that these delegated  decisions also be considered by the General Purposes Committee.

The Chair advised  the Committee that this report should be treated as an interim report as a number of the restructures outlined in the report were subject to statutory consultation and decisions would, as previously reported, come back to the Committee.  The Committee were advised that further fuller report on the staffing structures of the new directorate, Adults and Housing services would follow to the Corporate Committee in late June /July.

RESOLVED

1. That the overview of the current and proposed future shape of the service and summary of the proposed restructures set out in appendix 1 be noted.

2. That the following reports  be considered by the Committee on staffing restructures and unit closures, on the conclusion of staff and public  consultation:

• Alexandra  Road Crisis unit
• Adult Services drop in centres
• The Haven
• Woodside Day Centre
• Six8Four Centre
• Cranwood
• The Red House
• Broadwater Lodge
• Whitehall Street
• New Reablement Service
• Realignment of the assessment and Personalisation Service