Improved Social Services Accountability

Congratulations to the Council Committee section for now adding the statistical data from Social Services SCAG on to the Council website.

I think it is important that the public can have an opportunity to examine how social services is generally improving in the borough.

Improvement is broadly stable this month, however there is some increase in some Unit Costs and Intensive Home Care Contact time.

Nevertheless this has improved compared to the past and still remains as an "in-house" service despite at least two previous attempts to privatise the service.

Delayed Transfers of Care is still fluctuating. It will be interesting to see the outcome of the scrutiny taskgroup review set up by the Council, as my impression is that the Council has subtantially improved its dealing with patients, but there still remains a bit of a problem with the Acute Trust. In the long-run this issue will probably be solved by the development of Carshalton War Memorial Hospital for Intermediate Care, but this could take another 2 to 3 years to set up.

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