To provide the Cabinet with the final draft of the Strategic Delivery Plan for Transforming Adult Services 2012/15.

The Cabinet Member (Health & Wellbeing) presented the final draft of the Strategic Delivery Plan for Transforming Adult Services 2012-2015.  The Plan had been developed to take account of national policy direction, the demographic profile of Herefordshire and to build on the vision of encouraging people to take responsibility for their own lives and only when necessary access formal health and social care services.  It provided a single document setting out the overall approach for adults over the next three years and contributes to the Joint Delivery Plan, the strategic aims of the Council and its partners, and was a key part of achieving a balanced budget position.  In the ensuing discussion, the following points were raised:

·         The Strategic Delivery Plan had been examined by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, and there had been a constructive debate during the meeting.  The Cabinet Member supported the recommendations that had arisen from that meeting.

·         In reply to a question, the Director of People’s Services said that the Delivery Plan was designed to set a direction to ensure that resources were available for vulnerable adults and frail elderly people in particular.  It was important that more use was made in the future of a range of organisations, and local people in local communities, in order to ensure that care could be provided effectively.

·         The Cabinet Member added that the Health and Wellbeing Board had looked at all budgetary issues that each partner had, and the plan had been considered to be one that could be effectively utilised.

RESOLVED That: the Strategic Delivery Plan, as a working document to be used by the Council, other agencies and partners to deliver the necessary transformation for adult services, be approved.