Case Ref: 19 010 475 Category: Adult care services Sub Category: Charging

• Remind staff of the importance of promptly giving an indicative personal budget, and information to assist people in finding suitable, available social care accommodation. Remind staff that someone is not a self-funder unless they have over the current financial threshold available to fund their care, this is not the case if they have a property to sell and no other financial assets.

Case Ref: 19 009 122 Category: Children's care services Sub Category: Adoption

• In conjunction with an agency that delivers adoption services on its behalf, the Council will introduce the offer of a meeting with any prospective adoptive parent whose application falls at Stage One of the process and issue a reminder to officers on the ingredients that should go into any letter sent at that point.
• In conjunction with an agency that delivers adoption services on its behalf, the Council will review the information provided about the extent of information needed from prospective adoptive parents at Stage One of the process; both in those procedures published on its website and in the information pack given to prospective adopters

Case Ref: 18 012 871 Category: Adult care services Sub Category: Transition from childrens services

• The Council has agreed to review its care and support planning to ensure that all users of services to whom it provides services under the Care Act 2014 have a care and support plan on their case file. This will focus on records kept by its learning disabled adults team to ensure such documentation is on all files by the time they are next annually reviewed. The Council will also consider providing additional internal advice and training to ensure relevant staff know of their duties in this area
• The Council has also agreed to review its transitional planning when young adults are moving from one care setting to another; for example, from one residential placement to another, or from home to residential or to supported living or any combination of the above. It will consider introducing ‘action plans’ that clearly set out who will do what and by when, which can be shared with users of services so there is clarity and transparency about the process.