Issue - meetings

The Cabinet considered the report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance in relation to the final report of the Early Intervention and Prevention Working Group.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Moncur, commended the report to the Cabinet and thanked the Working Group Members and Officers for all their hard work in undertaking the review.

Decision Made: That the following recommendations be approved:-

1.       That the Head of Communities be authorised to:-

(a)            Request the Chief Officer for NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group, and NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group, to:

(i)              Consider the integration of primary care services into Sefton Council’s hubs, or the adoption of a similar model; and

(ii)             Consider encouraging Sefton General Practitioners to increase the use of social prescribing for patients, where appropriate.

(b)            Request other public sector partners to consider integration into Sefton Council’s hubs, or the adoption of a similar model.

(c)      Request the Chief Executive of Sefton Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) to attend a future meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board, to discuss the role of Sefton (CVS) and its interactions with other smaller organisations.

(d)      Explore the possibility of including a requirement for every future tender commissioned by the Council for other organisations to work together, co-operate and operate with an integrated approach, in the delivery of the services required.

2.       That the Heads of Service for Communities, Regulation and Compliance, Locality Services – Provision and Locality Services – Commissioned,  be requested to explore the possibility of transforming “place-based” services into the locality-based model, in the future.

3.       That the Senior Democratic Services Officer be requested to liaise with relevant officers in order to ensure that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board receives a six-monthly monitoring report, setting out progress made against each of the recommendations outlined above.