Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Transformation and Partnerships that presented progress against the Council’s corporate performance framework for the Altogether Healthier priority theme for the second quarter of the 2018/19 financial year (for copy see file of minutes).

The Strategy Team Leader, Health and Adult Services reminded members that consultation to develop the new vison for County Durham would closed at the end of the day. Feedback would be used to develop a draft Durham 2030 Vision which would be subject to a further consultation period.

Councillor Crute referred to page 177 of the report and queried if there was reason for concern in relation to the male and female life expectancy figures.

In response to a query from Mr Taylor Gooby regarding the risk for social care payments, the Corporate Director of Adult and Health Services explained that the risk relates to the new charging policy for deferred payments that had changed and was more about the monitoring and ensuring that policy was applied.

Councillor Hopgood referred to the take way food performance indicated and highlighted concerns with applicants opening and serving different food from what had been approved on the initial application and queried if any enforcement was in place.

The Principal Overview and Scrutiny Officer referred to the recent Overview and Scrutiny Visioning Workshop and advised that feedback from the workshop was currently being compiled and would be submitted as part of a formal scrutiny response and issues identified would be reported to COSMB.

Resolved:

That the information contained in the report be noted.