Jason Oxley, Assistant Director for Care, Health and Commissioning for People introduced the report of the Director of Care and Health, providing an update on performance in relation to Adult Social Care and Health.

Key elements of the performance report were highlighted, including the situation with residential and nursing care homes where there were increasing vacancy rates which now stood at 18.9%. It was reported that there were a small number of care homes closed due to Covid-19. The Committee’s attention was also brought to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) notifiable incidents as outlined in the report, the reporting process for which was still under development following a request from members for that information. It was further highlighted that the statistics for reablement showed that the main reason for ending of care packages was that people had achieved their aims.

The Committee welcomed the figures on reasons for end of care packages and sought further information in future reports on the CQC’s notifiable incidents pre-covid, as well as further detail on national or Liverpool City Region averages on performance data for comparison.

Resolved – That

the report be noted.