The Director of Adult Social Services presented a report detailing the judgements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following the Annual Performance Assessment of the Department of Adult Social Services. Their overall judgement was that Wirral was performing well, and ‘consistently delivering above the minimum requirements for people’. 

RESOLVED: That

(1)  Cabinet welcomes the fact that the Care Quality Commission have recognised that Adult Social Services are performing well and that they are delivering a standard of care which is consistently above the minimum standards required.

(2)  Cabinet further recognises that this report covers the year 2008/09 and notes that considerable progress has been made since then in delivering the agenda for the Transformation of Adult Social Services to provide more individual choice and personalised budgets.

(3)  Cabinet welcomes the commitment of Adult Social Services staff to providing better services and recognises the hard work involved in delivering high quality services.

(4)  Cabinet congratulates all the staff concerned and welcomes their commitment to a continuing drive for improvement.