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Annual Delivery Report and Performance Compendium 2023 01:06
Review of Homeless Support Services – Outcome of Consultation 08:06
Health – What the Health and Wellbeing Board’s Dashboard Tells Us 27:37
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Joint Living Well With Dementia Strategy 2024-2028 – Outcome of Consultation 33:11
Charging for Social Care and Support Policy 39:44
Leicestershire Local Flood Risk Management Strategy – Public Consultation Outcomes and Publication 45:18
2023/24 Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans Programme and Outcome of Consultation on Loughborough Area and South of Leicester Area Plans 49:43
Hey good morning everybody uh welcome to cabinet on the 24th of November 2023 remember we have broadcast live in the website it is archived so you can look at it later usual stuff microphones on when you speak and off when you’re not speaking apologies with’ none the
Minutes Pages three to 10 I’ll move the minutes from the 24th of October I take and red confirmed and sign Deborah I’ll second that sh have hands thank you very much um urgent items none Declarations of Interest anybody got anything no we have none annual delivery report and performance compendium 2023 Pages um
1121 122 who’s doing that rich you need to go over there can you then we don’t get you confused as a member which you wouldn’t want to be doing so uh Richard is going to run through the annual delivery report uh focuses mainly on delivery against our
Priorities as in the Strategic plan and eventually it’ll go to um full Council I think yeah scrutiny commission did have a look at this on the 8th of November their comments are included so we got Richard Wilding from our business intelligence team to present over to you Richard
Thank you leader the delivery report continues with the shorter format this year um and the covering report after paragraph 20 sets out really just some of the examples of positive delivery across the themes and I I’ll pick out just a few of those in the clean and
Green outcome area um these include uh The Net Zero strategy successful bid to deliver 100 EV charge points across the county launching Green living leerer and solar together planting nearly a quarter of a million trees and also progress on the new solar farm near quorn the economy priority saw the
Launch of the freep port um that will create high quality new jobs and boost the East mids economy by around 8.4 billion pounds also work to unlock land leaders Farm um which aims to create 120 plus new jobs um various strands of skills work um including the multiply
Program in relation to transport um we’ve seen major construction work started um on the North and East Melton lbre distributor Road uh We’ve progressed plans for improvements to Junctions along the a511 between Ashby and cville um to help deliver three and a half th000 new homes um we’ve also
Attracted 1.8 million pounds to help support public transport particularly in rural areas great communities work has been maintained um with 500 household holds supported to open their homes to over a thousand Ukrainian guests um in that area we’ve also um been successful in achieving 3/4 of a million pounds of
Arts Council England funding to support access to culture over the next few years in terms of the improved opportunities area we’ve seen 22 million pounds allocated from the household support fund um that’s to help people with the cost of living crisis um we’ve also seen the council’s big ever
Offering of free holiday clubs over the summer holiday um other work has included opening nine out of 25 family hubs across the county and delivering an additional 2,000 School Places work through the safe and well theme includes the launch of a new domestic abuse team which offers early
Help to families and adults causing harm uh We’ve also provided an extra £100,000 to continue the roll out of community speed cameras Public Health has launched a new healthy workplaces program and health in all policies approach um the director of Public Health annual report is later on the
Agenda lastly in terms of the delivery report in adult social care uh We’ve installed over 3,000 pieces of care technology equipment and 97% of users said they felt more secure afterwards we’re also implementing a new 2-year better care fund plan and it’s worth £75 million this year to deliver more
Integrated Health social care so just some examples of really good delivery this year the compendium which is appendix B summarizes performance over the past year and Compares us to other local authorities it includes the core spending power tables and they again highlight leerer as the lowest funded County so with significant funding
Differentials there from other local authorities particularly l L authorities and this is making it increasingly difficult to meet service demand in relation to Performance our benchmarking for last year showed us to be in the top five performing counties with those above us significantly better funded and our analysis confirms the
Previous conclusions of Consultants inow um that we continue to be the most efficient County so looking at 2022 23 performance we saw 80 indicators improved last year some of them in previously lower performing areas um which is really positive however the impact of the pandemic and the economic situation
Combined with low service funding has continued to be felt and we have seen 74 indicator areas that have worsened compared to last year so the compendium also highlights main risks that faces the council um there from paragraph 47 of the the report um also sets out um where a
Continued delivery focus is is required um and as as the leader just mentions report was considered by scrutiny Commission on the 8th of November um they were generally positive about having a wide range of performance information in there to to to look over and there are some specific comments um
From paragraph 50 of the report so the recommendations are set out in paragraph three um thank you very much and happy to take any questions yeah thank you Richard I think um you show us that the lowest funded and it’s a particularly Grim Financial circumstances for County
Councils I think we’ve done pretty well to get into the into the top five I mean I mean you’re a statistician do you think we do well with the money we’ve got it’s a good achievement but I think it’s getting harder each year to sustain that position in light of funding
Position thank you for that it was a bit of a leading question if I’m honest thatd be ruled out if it was in court anyway I’m I’m happy that we what we’ve done with what we’ve done so I I’ll move the motion I think Lee you wanted to speak yeah I’m
Happy to second I mean I think the first two recommendations the overall good progress in delivering on Council strategic priorities and outcomes um as set out in the report and it also notes the uh council’s current low comparative funding but with good but under pressure performance position and the financial
Pressure and risks now facing so it’s a good snapshot of the last 12 months I always guide people to this document if they want to know and ask the question what do you do as a County Council and I think it covers that very well and I
Think we do it’s it’s good to see that we’re acknowledged for being the best performing County Council again but yeah we have to try and maintain that so I think that’s going to get harder and harder as we go along so happy to Second low funded efficient and high performing
Is pretty much what we are uh I moved it Richard second Lee second it all in favor thank you very much thank you Richard five review of homeless Support Services it’s the outcome of consultation 123 to 218 uh health and overview scrutiny committee consider this on November the
1st their comments were attached uh committee supported the proposals we’ve also received some comments from Amanda on behalf of the labor group these are attached to the order pay for this meeting my a we’ve got Mike and Josh here to um present I think you’re going
To respond to amandra at the same time aren’t you um so when you’ve done that I’ll go to Louise who’s got responsibility you doing it Mike or joshna no I’m just gonna as you say it’s the feedback on the consultation and then the proposal for the new service
But I’ll let joshna take you through the summary of the consultation findings thank you um the purpose of this report is to advise the cabinet of the outcome of the consultation on the proposed delivery model for homeless support and seek approval to Sease funding a dedicated homeless support
Service and instead to provide the support via the council’s existing Public Health Services um so as identified in the report the council currently commissions on a discretionary basis a homeless support service which provides support to adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness this is currently provided for the council by
Falcon support service business and Nottingham Community Housing Association the contract value is £300,000 per anom and end and the contract ends on the 31st of March 2024 the County Council does not have a statutary responsibility to provide specific services for individuals who are homeless and the council is not a
Recipient of grant funding that is focused on preventing or relieving homelessness grant funding namely the homeless prevention Grant and the rough sleeping initiative funds have been made available to districts to support the delivery of their responsibilities the council does however have a responsibility around improving the health of its residence
Which includes the provision of Health Improvement information advice and support services aimed at preventing illness following a review of existing provision and a review of need we pulled together a proposed model which was developed um and that was for the County Council to seize funding the dedicated homeless support service and instead to
Provide the support VI existing Public Health Services we undertook a public consultation to seek views on this proposed model and paragraphs 30 to 38 of the report provide further detail on the consultation the council received 251 questionnaire responses as well as over 130 individuals attending the information sessions and we also
Received numerous responses bya the dedicated email address just under half of the questionnaire responses were from those who were or had been supported by by the homeless support service and also from staff of homeless Support Services just under three quarters of the questionnaire respondents disagreed with the proposal and out of those who
Disagreed just over half were from staff of homeless support services and those who were or had been supported by the service respondents were given the opportunity within the consultation to comment on the reasons for their responses as well as putting forward alternative suggestions for a model and
These are detailed in the tables under paragraph 44 and and 47 one of the main themes that came out from the consultation was the perception that the Falcon Center which is a homeless hostel located in lfra and provided by Falcon Support Services would close and the subsequent impact
This would have on services that are provided within the center the funding for the county council’s homeless support service does not pay for the running of homeless hostile buildings other comments that came out of the consultation fell under a few broad themes one of those was that the
Elements that were reported or commented on Fell outside of the scope of The Proposal so for example there was some comments made around the need for more housing um other comments were focused on um elements that will be covered by the proposed model for example focusing more effort on preventing homelessness
Which is where we want this service model to be aimed at and then also elements that will be addressed during the implementation period of the proposed model so for example raising awareness of existing services based on the extensive work that has been carried out to date which includes
A review of need a review of existing provision a review of responsibilities of the County Council and a review of the consultation responses it is recommended to seize funding um the homeless support service and instead Provide support via existing Public Health Services with a view to the new
Model commencing on 1 of April 2024 this will be achieved primarily through the universal offer of first Contact plus and also Al through the local area coordination service and this has the benefit of achieving the financial savings Target of £300,000 further description of first Contact plus service and the local area
Coordination Services described within paragraphs 54 to 58 of the report by pursuing this proposal the aim is that we are able to provide coverage of the offer across the whole of leerer rather than being predominantly concentrated within the Falcon Center we want to widen the eligibility to include any
Individual who is at risk of becoming homeless want to provide access to support via a central point of access and we want to place a greater focus on improving the health and well-being of these individuals if the proposal is approved the council will work collaboratively with key stakeholders to strengthen the
Referral Pathways into the service to meet people’s needs this includes the development and implementation of a Communications and engagement plan which is directly in response to the consultation feedback the council will also o work with the current providers to ensure a robust exit strategy is in
Place I don’t know that would you like me to move on straight to responding to Amanda’s comments yeah yes Josh and carry Straight on then I’ll go to Louise when You’ finished your presentation you’ve done a lot of work down here go ahead um so some one of the comments in
The in the response was around the service being described as one service it is one service it is one contract and there are two providers delivering it the com components that are described within the report are elements of the service provision so they’re not three separate entities they are one service
One contract and that’s why the review was carried out on the service as a whole um in the same vein it’s difficult to then break down um the different elements from a financial perspective as some of the activities are shared across both providers what we can split out is
That Falcon Support Services received 210,000 and ncha received 90,000 so that’s why it’s not been analyzed based on three different Provisions um in terms of the inreach offer um it is already described within the report the current Services a discretionary provision that was in place prior to the amendment to the
Housing Act having the homeless homelessness reduction Act and the associated funding has placed greater duties on districts as the housing authority to prevent Rel and relieve homelessness so the roles and responsibilities have actually changed since the service commenced um and then in terms of the reference to
Accommodations base support um a lot of assumptions are being made that the entirety of accommodation based support provided across Leicester sh is funded through the contract just so just to clarify Falcon Support Services receive £210,000 to deliver Co components of the current service and that includes a referral Hub which includes a really
Comprehensive assessment process cess it includes hostile based support for 30 individuals at any one time it includes provision of droing sessions and also funding for participating in contract management activity which includes uh which includes Performance Management and cating that performance data so on that basis the entirety of the 210,000
Isn’t solely for hostile based support um also what we know is that there’s a plethora of support services that operate within the center and these support offic offer are not funded through this contract and therefore it be incorrect to say that the entirety of inreach support would be lost through termination of this
Contract within that letter there’s also um reference to absorbing the current work and again in the report we’ve we’ve clearly stated that we SE we’re proposing to seize funding the dedicated homeless support service so we’re not putting forward a like for like offer and therefore we’re not saying that
Public Health Services will absorb all of the existing work instead the intention is to focus more on up Upstream work so we’re wanting to look at preventing up homelessness in the first place through providing health and well-being support to individuals at an earliest age rather than waiting for a
Person to become homeless before we intervene um and then there’s reference to complex needs of individuals the current model focuses on low to medium needs it was not designed or intended to support those with complex needs and so the proposed model um continues with this
Approach yeah if I can just add to that I suppose the important thing for me is actually I think this new model where um Mrs hack says we’d not consider the specialist nature of homeless of the Hostile setting I think it’s important to recognize the fulcon center is not
The only hostel in leerer and the strengthen model we’ve got and the strengthen links we’ll have with District Council housing departments and indeed the other hostels in leerer would enable us to provide that support more comprehensively across all the hostels in leer the point about complexity in case load um J as well
Made thank you uh Louise one of yours thank you and first of all I want to thank the officers for the incredible amount of work that’s gone into this proposal and also for the difficulties they’ve had um working up to this point um I do want to focus on the fact that
This is a very small amount of funding we’re talking about um from the whole of the Falcon um Support Services budget um so I do want to reiterate that we don’t um provide the accommodation and that I would have expected knowing that the time was coming up to the end of contract the
Plans would be put in place by the charity and that they would have um sustain stainability plans um put in um it’s normal to review a service at the end of a contract um it’s not about the provider it’s about the service and what we want
To be able to provide for the health and well-being of um we’re talking about the homelessness um cohort at the moment um but we do um look after or try to look after all our vulnerable um cohorts within our society um we have uh we there were a number of
Issues within the um consultation about face to face um and how people can’t access the service um anyone at risk of homelessness can be can refer themselves or have anybody else refer themselves uh refer them into the service uh our LAX will provide sorry local area coordinators will provide the
Onetoone support um for um people requiring it the proposal will be a bspoke model so what the individual needs to try to prevent them getting to crisis point in the first place is where we’re trying to Target our service and by working with the districts we’re
Hoping to be able to pull in about 2,000 people before they get to crisis point countywide rather than the you know the blocks we have at present with only 30 people being accommodated in Falcon Center and that there are blocks in getting those people moving through um
So we hopeful that this is actually going to deliver a much better service in in a lot of ways um and I think I will leave it there and I will propose the I will recommend the proposal thank you Christine I’m happy to second that proposal and again I’d like to thank the
Officers for all the work they’ve done and certainly what the lead members been doing on behalf of the the county on this matter thank you Deborah thank you just a couple of points from me obviously this is a really emotive and it’s a really important service that we do you know
Becoming homeless is horrendous for anybody so if we can work further Upstream to stop people getting into that situation hting crisis point I think that’s where we should be targeting what little money we have to do this just a few questions for me I’ll ask them all at once and then you can
Answer me so um you said that the total amount of money that the Falon service get the moment is 210,000 from the contract what I don’t know is how much of that is part of the Falcon Services overall budget so I don’t know what they their income I
Know they’re a charity and they get benefits and grants Etc so how much is that 210 and does that pay for all that their support staff within the service as well and I was just reading some papers that are going to um charmwood Community safety their paper that’s
Going to um finance and performance scrutiny next week and um sort of for example they get a grant from the charmwood community safety partnership for 20,000 and that um provides a recovery Navigator so I I am aware that they’re getting other grants and funding from from elsewhere that is also helping them
With their support staff so what percentage is that of their overall income is this 210 that we give them through this contract does that pay for all their support staff I think I know the answer to that because I’ve just read out that they’ve got a recovery navigated there funded from the
Community CSP and I’m taking it that all the people that stay in in the Falcon Center are entitled to council tax benefit to pay for them to stay there so that’s not going to alter At All by any decisions we’re making here today yeah thanks as as you point out
The the current provider the Falcon Support Services will have a range of funding streams um housing benefit from the people who are staying in their other grants that they’ve got as you pointed out the rents that they charge um for for the accommodation for for people which is unstained back um I
Think looking at their the last set of accounts they filed their overall group income is is just shy of 3 million quid I think it’s £ 2.8 million of that hours the the the from us as you say is £210,000 um not all of that £210,000 is
The inre service they also receive an element for coordinating with the other um Consortium member of the current contract so the the actual inreach element is what 150 about 150,000 yes that obviously it does pay for support staff because the whole point about the current contract is it
Provides stuff who would support people in the hosital um with their health and well-being need support but obviously that doesn’t represent the um the totality of the color support staff that will be in there that you know mean they’re not there to do the caretaking keep the lights on they are there to
Provide a specific service so that 150k back sorry leader and that 150k that does the in support is only supporting 30 people at any one time whereas under our proposed model it can help a lot more people so it’s really hoping and it’s only those people that
Are crisis point where we’re our statute duty is to help them before they get to that crisis point so we need to get up the other end rather than funding the crisis point is that the the model that we’re now looking to implement instead
Of this one um yeah again um you know I think that’s right you know essentially this almost gets into kind of reviewing the whole service model um and again one I think one of the key things for me is how do we try and prevent homelessness and improve the health and wellbeing of
A population of people who aren’t just rough sleeping or in a hostel but are at risk of homelessness at risk of losing their tencies so that mix of having the community based support that Josh just described the links in with District council’s housing offices I think that’s
Absolutely key to try and support to do our bit of the support as best we can with more people across the county just to add as well that when we’re talking about temporary accommodation the focus seems to shift towards hostile towards and actually we’re talking about b&bs we’re talking
About those who are s for surfing so the numbers are much more significant and that’s the cohort that we’re also wanted to reach out to sounds like a lot better service to me aie thank you leader certainly you’ve explained quite a lot there and and and
Put my mind in Focus now it seems that we this really does give a greater help to more people across L this year who are potentially coming homeless or homeless that we really need to look after because a lot of these people do suffer from various illnesses um and and
We need to make sure that we know we are looking after the owners I know the districts do a lot as well and the lacks as we call them the local area coordinators are a vital point in making contact with people I’ve I’ve been in close contact with my lack they come to
The parish council meetings they work in the community and they actually find the people that we need to help so I’m very supportive of the way we’re going we are not going away from helping people we are improving our help to people across the county thank you
Chair um yeah thank thank you for your comments and I think it is also worthwhile remembering you know what’s our overall Duty from a public health point of view it’s to take steps to improve the health and wellbeing of the population fully recognize that the health of those at risk of homelessness
Or or rough sleeping or sleeping uh you know in temporary accommodation is really important it’s not as you know there nowhere near as good as general population so we need to take the appropriate steps to improve their health that is a whole different service model from providing accommodation and
Getting involved in the district council’s responsibility it’s absolutely right I think this is a good policy and thank you Louise for the work you’ve done I it’s been difficult at times and you Josh and above and beyond uh where you need to be so thanks very much so it was
Moving by Louise seconded by Christine K hands in favor thank you very much another one from you Mike uh annual report of the director of Public Health uh Lester Health what the health and well-being boards dashboard tells us 219 to 252 uh this is being considered by the health wellbeing over and scrutiny
Committee their comments are included you’re going to present on you mik and then I’m going to you again Louise which one of yours yes thank you leader going to have to do this one on my own it’s a scary thought you know where’s my support um uh so as the the paper sets
Out I have a staty duty to produce an independent report on the uh health of the population um you’ll quickly realize that I haven’t done one since 2019 so welcome to my four yearly annual report which hopefully you’d understand that covid um wasn’t very helpful to me in
Finding the space and time to consider the health of the population more broadly um however it is important that I get back on track with producing the annual reports and um for this one I wanted to go back to kind of first base which I
Could have chosen to do a topic but I just wanted to sort of lay information out to the public to yourselves and to partner organizations on how L’s health is looking um so I asked uh Victoria rice as our Public Health analyst within the DAT and business intelligence
Section have we got something which just gives me a list of indicators which would describe the health of the population and she rightly pointed out that we did have one and it was a health and well-being board dashboard so the reason I’ve used the health and well-be dashboard is just trying to avoid
Duplication um that dashboard itself um sets out 100 plus indicators across the life course as we call it which is the approach that the health and well-being board takes to look at um Health through birth growing up Healthy Living working well and then dying well at the at the
End of life um I won’t go through slavishly bit by bits but paragraphs sort of 16 on I think highlight the main points for me as you would expect Le’s health is really quite good over half of the indicators are better than the national average um and we’ve got some
Really good successes in paragraph 18 so if you look at our comparative performance whether you see that as being against the national average or against the kind of sit for comparator um authorities uh smoking prevalence childhood abast in year six uh increasing vaccination coverage in early years are all worthy of note
Um with reference to the previous item addressing homelessness actually the um number of households owed a duty under the homelessness reduction act has fallen between 2022 and uh 2021 um and indeed number of indicators to related to child development are all are all worthy of note um I haven’t made
A huge number of recommendations for other organizations because really for me this is about telling that picture of Health to them in their meetings such as a health and well-being board but there are a few things in there that certainly as a department I think we need to look
At reviewing our approach so physical activity I think we do a good job at enabling the inactive to be active but if you look at our comparative performance around trying to get everybody active um it is not as good as it should be equally uh work around five
A day I think we provide an excellent F Weight Management Service but the indicators would suggest we need to do more to improve the diet of uh or the awareness if you like of the diet of our population and then air quality which remains a big issue in terms of planning
Is another one where in terms of the PM 2.5 um measures we could do with being better um as we could around what was previously known as excess winter death so winter mortality index the number of people who die above and beyond um the seasonal average if you like in winter
Is something that I’d want the department to focus a bit more on so it comes here on the way to uh consideration by full Council um and as I say i’ sort of look forward to um sharing the detail of this to help inform partner organizations plans isn’t the aren’t the district
Councils responsible for physical activity uh no we’ve got that so they’ve got their kind of leisure responsibility through the Leisure Center offer we’re the ones through the public health Duty that have got the um the duty on taking steps to improve the health of the population which physical activity would
Be a big part of it thank you uh Louise this is one of yours thank you um yes I think it’s good report and it’s it’s really pleasing to see some of the um the real positives in there um especially after the covid um pandemic and the recovery thereafter um there are
Some areas still to um you know improve on obviously and um I congratulate Mike and his team for uh the performance indicators thank you oh and I I moved the report thank you uh Deborah I’ll second the the motion and just a couple of points for me really good to see that
Smoking and obesity um that’s really key for me as um lead for children and families so the Obesity rates going down is really good um I did as well pick up um mental health um issues that we rated one of the tops for um Suicide Prevention and our mental health offer
Is really really good so that you know I’m fully aware of the covid pandemic and how that’s left a lot of people with mental health issues but it’s good to see that we’re doing a lot about that and making those improvements to the nation so I’ve always enjoyed enjoyed
Reading your um yearly report so I’m glad to see it back so very happy to Second it another the speakers moved by Louise seconded by Deborah all in favor thank you thank you Mike Lester ler and Rutland jointed living well with dementia strategy 24 or 2024 to 2028 the outcome of the
Consultation the draft strategy has been looked at Again by Health overview and scrutiny committee on November the 1st on their comments are set out in the report we got John Wilson director of adults and communities to present and I should be going to Christine who’s got responsibility morning John morning Kate go
Ahead thank you leader um so this is the third living well with dementia strategy that’s been produced across ler Le and rotland current strategy covering the period 2019 to 2022 was extended due to the uh circumstances caused by the pandemic the current strategy has a number of areas where there have been
Good progress and achievements made and they’re laid out at paragraph 16 in the report but just to pick out a couple of those um within the last period we’ve developed a joint strategic needs assessment chapter on dementia we’ve managed to procure and uh deliver um a dementia support service
And and the county council’s positive behavior support team has um begun a new approach to supporting providers to ensure that uh people receive good quality services particularly for those services but that deal with more challenging areas there have been some challenges in delivering the previous strategy and
They’re laid out at um paragraphs 17 and 18 and I particularly concerned with a reduction in diagnosis rates but also a disparity in diagnosis rates across um the Leer leerer and rotland area um and as you’ll see in the report um leerer and Rutland have um significantly worse diagnosis rates than do leester
City so the revised strategy has been developed by uh the County Council together with its Partners um and also uh had been uh co-produced with the dementia support service paragraph 24 um demonstrates the outcome of a survey conducted by Health watch which involved over 250 people um and found a
Number of areas of inconsistency particularly in diagnostic Pathways uh the availability and access to information but also in terms of some provision consultation on the draft strategy took place from uh 17th of July through to the 22nd of September of this year it was accessible online there were
Printed copies made available and there were focus groups held it’s a very successful consultation in total there were 319 responses of which 206 related directly to the county um penck C of today’s report gives the detail of those 206 responses um but overall I think the summary is that uh the consultation
Indicated broad agreement with the aims identified a majority of people agreeing that the actions listed in the strategy will be beneficial there were some areas that were identified for further consideration uh particularly the cessation of the Admiral nurse provision um the memory assessment service and uh some areas around uh
Health and Care delivery particularly around training needs for Health and Care staff so we’ve developed a delivery plan for the county and that’s attached to appendix B um the health overview and scrutiny committee considered um the draft strategy on the 1st of November and comments are within the report paragraphs 40 to 44 and in conclusion summary um I think it’s fair to say that um many of the comments that we received within the consultation where further development was required or where there were concerns did Focus particularly on healthc care provision particularly and specifically the Admiral nurse provision and improvements
To the memory assessment service but we also recognize that there are further work to do around the join up between Health and Care Services so subject to approval the revised strategy would be implemented from January 24 thank you uh Christine yeah I’d like to recommend I’d like to propose recommendations here um this
Report went to both adults and communities and the health and overview SC scrutiny committee which I attended both committees and was able to speak the strategy supports people with dementia across llr Which is less to less to share in rudland excuse me I’m going to change me glasses I can’t can’t
See other one challenges to be addressed by the strategy included a reduction in diagnosis rates due to covid and disparity and diagnosis rates in the County compared to the city and the ceasing of the Admiral nurses service these nurses were financed by the NHS and nothing is done by the count the
Three councils so there was a lot of concern about the Admiral nurses being not carried on the consultation went through a variety of channels and meetings and there were significant input from health watchat and people with lived experience of dementia and concerns were also raised regarding the need for more Community Sport and
Specific training so I’d like to say that this this strategy is very good thorough strategy and I hope I’m not going to be one of the recipiant of it but none of us know of course and I’m sure some uh some of us have got the
People who had Dementia in our family so I’d like to recommend this report thank you Christine Louise uh I I’m happy to second I’m really pleased with the work going on to actually uh get diagnosis um clinics out into the county I think it’s really important um so happy to
Support another speakers all in favor thank you very much thank you John thank you Kate eight charging for social care and support policy 305 to 374 adults and communities overview scrutiny committee have looked at it and considered the proposed changes on the 6th of November please say they were
Supportive John so if you want to walk us through it I should go to Christine thank you um so this policy just sets out how the council will undertake uh Financial assessment in relation to residential and non-residential care and support services um a robust and up to-date comprehensive charging policy is
Required uh to ensure the the council can continue to charge and collect contributions but also the policy assists people to know um what they might be charged for services the revisions within uh the policy provide additional clarification and wording to reflect that the policy um is reflective of the council’s
Excising its discretion to charge adults towards the cost of services as per the Care Act um but the policy also now highlights that we now have an online care contribution estimator on the council’s website to allow people more access to uh information and advice as detailed in appendix B there
Are a number of clarifications to wording they don’t change the principles upon which we charge or the principles upon which we assess but they do uh make a number of clarifications particularly areas around um where people are allowed to retain additional income where housing costs taken into account and
Where we take account of or how we take account of absences uh for planned care in addition there are a number of areas of policy where we’ve wanted to reinforce some of the wording or some of the principles um particularly around where we can refuse a request for a preferred
Choice of accommodation in a care home where we determine that it may be um unaffordable either to the council or to the individual um some clarifications around the minimum income guarantees and uh methods for assessing for uh residential and non-residential care and particularly where there’s a partner
Involved um we’ve got quite a complex process at the moment we’re trying to simplify that process um and we’re adding um a number of areas uh in terms of disability related expenditure to make sure that uh people have sufficient resources available to them after the council have charged them so the consultation uh
Subject to Cabinet approval will run for eight weeks um we’ll make it available to the general public to people who drawn support um through advocacy groups um due to the technical detailing in parts of the policy we are seeking some advice additional advice from the L equalities challenge group to ensure
That the uh consultation can be accessible as possible comments from uh adults and communities over in scrutiny committee are within the report at paragraphs 28 through to 32 and the equality impact uh implications are detailed from paragraph 33 onwards screening did indicate that there will be mainly positive outcomes
Um from the proposals particularly the partner adjustments or orbe there could be a mixed impact as a result of some of the changes to how we assess for uh shortterm Residential Care um and for some people they could be positive but for others they could be negative depending on the individual circumstances thank
You good John Christin is one yours thank you leader um as reported by the officer the policy sets out how many County charges adults who receive care and support services in line with the Care Act 2014 it updates an existing published policy the policy makes it
Clear that unlike the NHS social care is usually not free of charge at the point of need need a person should expect to pay towards the cost of care and support services and their contribution will depend on their financial and person personal circumstances which John outlined the policy makes it clear how
County will conduct a financial assessment and assess their charges based on information they provide on their Capital Income the main changes concerned clarification in wording to reduce ambiguity and reinforce some of the provisions in the existing policy which John highlighted the council is not proposing to change the charges
Themselves or the principles of the charging and assessment we will be asking people their support networks for their views of the proposed changes and the policy overall there will be opportunities to provide feedback and how we can improve it further thank you I I happy toose this recommendation thank you D
Yeah I’m happy to Second fully support the need for this and bring it up to date and as John said simplify the process as well and I’d ask everyone out there to engage with consultation process thank you excellent moved by Christine seconded by Lee all in favor thank you very
Much nine Le local flood risk management strategy public consultation outcomes and publication uh sets out the roles and responsibilities of the council partners and the public on how flood risk will be managed uh highways and transport overview and scrutiny commission have looked at this at its meeting on the
November 9th and its comments are in the report we’ve got an who’s the director of environment and transport then I should go to Aussie who’s got responsibility an good morning and we’re seeking a approval of this final strategy it’s put before you today and we Pro produce the strategy as a lead
Local flood Authority it sets out the roles and responsibilities of the relevant stakeholders and also the principles to which all those parties will operate in relation to managing flood risk in the county we consulted on the draft strategy um it was required updating to reflect the latest National
Policy as well as the findings of that review scrutiny panel that leaders already mentioned we consulted from H June to August this year we had 254 responses and a breakdown of the respondents and the geographic area of the spread we got and the engagement is given in paragraph 33 and 34 of the
Report the overwhelming majority were supportive h of the straty principles and objectives and while no significant changes have been made as a result of that public consultation or the comments from h&t scrutiny the highways and transport scrutiny and over overview and scrutiny committee there are some minor
Changes in the document and they are stated in paragraph 48 mostly around clarification um of some of the terms in um technical aspects of the document we also took on board comments about the length of the document and hence this final thing before you is a shorter version and we’ve put more into
Technical appendices so it’s more user user friendly across the community we’re seeking um approval for that final strategy is appended at appendix B and the action plan to that is appendix C and the recommendations as per the order paper aie thank you leader I’d just like to to
Say what um we are we have done there’s a lot of work gone into this uh strategy flooding is an absolute nightmare to families and people across Le this year when when they’ve been impacted on this and over the last few years we’ve had quite a few events of flooding due to
Climate change the work that has gone into this provides the such a strategy that we can actually fall back to to work with the community to help them when we have problems the dedicated team that we have on the flooding department is very small
And a lot of work has been put into this by a few a very small team and I would like to congratulate those teams for the hard work that they’ve done putting this together but the work they do across our County working with our communities when we have such events and the prevention
That we do do to help the county ease the C from flooding so I I’m very happy to move this report and I say again I want to thank the dedicated team that have put this together thank you uh Blake you’re seconding this apparently yes I’m very happy and happy
To Second the report and concur with the uh propose of the motion thank you yeah well I’m I’m happy with this I mean it’s difficult being the lead local flood Authority and the members of the public do not particularly understand the role of the lead local flood Authority so
Anything will help to explain to them what our role is and oie thank the whole team there’s one lady I want to single out who I have experience with and that’s she calls herself Tor but I think her name’s VI Victoria kums I mean she’s incredible worker in in your team so I’m
Sorry I only mention one but she’s she’s the one that I come across the most and she’s very very good um mooved SEC moveed by o seconded by Blake we have a share hands in favor very good thank you uh 10 2324 local psyching and walking infrastructure plans program and
Outcome of consultation on the lfra area and south of Leicester area plans uh again highways and transport have had a look at this uh their comments are just included we’ve got the usual uh commenter which is from Max who’s a big cyclist as you know his are attached to
The order paper Mark 10A uh this is one of yours again an and then it’s one of us so I’ll go to you an thank you again yes LC whips and Natty ACM we’ve got for those local cycling walking infrastructure plans and these are the first two we’re bringing to the cabinet
We do have a program of LC whips for across the county so lra and the area south of leester are the first two we have developed and bringing for approval we have a cycling and walking strategy and that aligns with the national government cycling walking strategy called gear change but under our
Recycling walking strategy we have these what we call LC whips and it really is about identifying a detailed network of cycling and walking infrastructure we would like to see delivered over the next decade or so and so it’s that next level of detailed down about the practicalities of what you’d see in an
Area we have H the lra one just to be clear doesn’t cover just lfra it covers lfra shepshed and corn and the area south of Leicester covers basically what we’d know as the principal urban area just surrounding the city itself appendix a has a map showing those areas we’ve consulted on them included
Sessions with h County district and parish councilors as well as the public cons consultation and so it’s quite extensive and we also held an information event in Obie which our our lead member attended as well the final round of consultation with the Publican members um and of all
Tiers of local Authority took place in August to September this year and as you’ve mentioned leader we also went to the h&t scrutiny committee and their comments are in paragraph 87 in terms of resourcing because I think it’s really important to highlight this point and we do get funding from
Active travel England for to help with and capacity within the authority to deliver the strategies themselves however the actual funding of the infrastructure will be entirely down to bidding for funding through the likes of active travel England or through developer contributions as new developments come come forward Because
The actual real value of these strategies is the evidence based to actually bid for funding or to seek those developer contributions so really must say the the piece of delivery will depend on our ability to secure funding The Authority itself does not have funding to deliver on these um again as
You mentioned leader Mr Hunt has um submitted some comments they know just maybe if I could take a minute to address some of those he asked why the main focus for lra um is a town center and rather the housing developments where you know trips will be generated a
Journey start the um the network that the LC whip sets out it connects those key areas of growth but actually in order to get funding from government you have to focus on the areas that provide the greatest potential benefit to the most number of people I the biggest bank
Your back hence therefore why we’ve kind of focused on the Town Center there Mr Hunt also um suggests 20 M hours in the Town Center is the best way to encourage cycling and walking um this was raised in consultations actually when we we consulted on the lfra um area one and
That possibility is referred to on page 66 of the LC whip so we do kind of cover that however what I would say is any proposal for a 20 m in our limit is subject to our normal um processes in that consultations and including with the police and I’d also reflect that the
Government’s recent plan for drivers has put strong messages out there against authorities implementing 20 M hour Zone which is another consideration so finally we’re just seeking um approval for these first two LC whips but I just and caveat there that we will be coming forward and probably next spring with the next two
For cabinet to consider thank you leader those 20 mile in our zones have been particularly unpopular in Wales aren’t they they have absolutely and and really the principle is you know for years and implementing these is you either have to have speeds be below 24 and less about
24 M hour or you have to put in physical traffic cming measures to slow traffic down putting a sign up at s from a 30 to 20 does not automatically lead people to drive slower so then you get more and more discontent about enforcement Etc and and if people don’t perceive their a
Need to drive that slow that’s where you get some of the reactions maybe that Wales has is H seen had that very question and tried to explain that to people in some of my Villages uh oie this is one of yours yes thank you leader I I fully support um this program
I went to the consultation and listening to the cing clubs and and the the people that attended they want to get more freedom on the roads now what we need to do we need we need government more actively supporting councils um to pay for to pay for this because as an said
It will take quite a long time to actually put this into prce process where we’re are Bid now officers spend a lot of time making bids out and we’re not always successful and that is a lot of offic of time that we do use and as
You know we’re one of the lowest funded uh County councils but one of the most efficient in the country and it’s about time that our government you know started to give us some money to actually put this in progress because they’re they’re always pumping out that
We need to get fitter that we need to use cycling that we need to walk well this is a program that offices are put together that we can actually achieve that now we need we need the funding to do that and I I totally support the
Program and and the way that we are working but it could be put into place a lot faster if government gave us the funding I’m happy to move this uh Le better to give us the money to actually do it rather than to bid all the time and we’re constantly bidding uh I’m
Seconding this Louise you’re doing this I’m happy to second obviously um it links in with the health of the population um but it is really important that um residents are aware that this will take time um because we don’t have the funds at County we have to bid um so yes happy to
Support CHR are you going cycling around shepshed the all the houses I’m getting no I think I think it’s a good policy but I think the the new developments and all the new houses that’s going around the area then the the Builders of the estate uh you know the planners and whatever
You’ve got to look at providing the the roads or the infrastructure for people to to walk and to cycle because in some cases the roads are that narrow no Pavements at all I know you’re not supposed to Sidle on the Pavements but when the roads are very narrow it’s
Quite quite dangerous so I think we’ve got to start looking at the planning and the planning departments when they’re approving some applications good point Blake are you a cyclist I I I try to be um occasionally and I very much enjoy cycling um just want to concur with what the lead
Members said um we potentially have two future MPS sitting in this room today so I look forward to when Peter Bedford and Craig Smith can make those very comments in the house or with the Department of Transport once elected and uh ensure that leester sheer do get a greater
Share of the pi so to speak uh to to to roll out these kind of schemes but just on that point the report says we’ve had 360,000 pounds from active travel England and I know the authority had a really good meeting with active travel England some months ago um what Prospect
Is there of active travel England further funding the development of these schemes and actually you know as as um cabinet’s probably aware we were unfortunately assessed to zero originally with Act of travel England assessed all authorities in terms of your commitment Etc to cycling and walking that meant we couldn’t bid for
Their Capital funding we have however been working closely with Act of travel England land to um improve to get to a point where we are scoring higher so that we can do that and just out of interest and that’s been going very positively I was H at conference last
Week and I was talking to um Danny Williams who’s the chief executive out of travel England and he he basically opened the conversation with leerer is doing really well so you know I’m very hopeful that we are going to be in a position that we can bid for that
Capital funding so Outlook is positive yeah I think so it was a bit of a shame we got CT scored zero I think it’s because we fetched that stuff out down in burto which everybody wanted us to fetch out even the local Member of Parliament at the time wanted to fetch
It out we fetched it out and then they score us zero uh can you reply to uh Max would you be replying to Max I I know you can be a bit picity but he’s he generally his heart’s in the right place when it comes to
Biking uh all in favor move by a secondly by Blake thank you oh sorry was it secondly by the way sorry sorry sorry Blake secondly by the way sorry Lise uh any mistake I’ve made for well items referred from overview and scrutiny we have none it’s good any
Item that the chairman decided to take as urgent we have none so thank you very much uh have a good weekend we’re done