Further to Minute No. 188 of the Cabinet Meeting held on 27 January 2011, the Council considered the report of the Strategic Director - Social Care and Wellbeing which provided further information relating to the I.T. Capital Programme for the Adult Social Care Department together with proposals to use the ICT Strategy Capital in conjunction with the Adult Social Care infrastructure grant to support the implementation of a new Client Management Database.
It was moved by Councillor Robertson, seconded by Councillor Brodie-Browne and
RESOLVED:
That the following three schemes be approved for inclusion in the Capital Programme for completion:-
Social Care
Further to Minute No. 97 of the Council Meeting held on 2 September 2010, the Cabinet considered the report of the Strategic Director - Social Care and Wellbeing which provided further information relating to the I.T. Capital Programme for the Adult Social Care Department together with proposals to use the ICT Strategy Capital in conjunction with the Adult Social Care infrastructure grant to support the implementation of a new Client Management Database.
RESOLVED:
That the Council be recommended to approve the following three schemes in the Capital Programme for completion:-
The Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director - Social Care and Well-Being on the proposal to use the ICT Strategy Capital in conjunction with the Adult Social Care Infrastructure grant to support the implementation of a new Client Management Database.
The report indicated that capital funding was required to develop the IT infrastructure to:
· improve information sharing between health and social services
· improve the management records of vulnerable adults and streamline the financial systems
· improve the statutory obligation to safeguard vulnerable adults throughout the borough
· support mobile and flexible working to reduce costs and improve service delivery; and
· improve and streamline management information to assist service planning and budget management
and that the funding was predominantly aimed at transformation and was specifically aligned to changing the way the Council worked as an organisation and to build capacity for the future.
RESOLVED: That
(1) Cabinet be recommended to support and approve the scheme to develop the Adult Social Care IT infrastructure as detailed in the report; and
(2) it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council's Forward Plan of Key Decisions. Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Health and Social Care had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by the Cabinet Member/Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan because the Council had to meet deadlines for the implementation of a solution for producing electronic assessments/self directed support plans.