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On 3 September 2026 the Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee is due to consider three reports: its forward work programme and action tracking, the Care Inspectorate Wales Improvement Check of Adult Services with its draft action plan, and the annual report on social services complaints and compliments for 2025-26. No minute of this meeting has been published, so no decisions are recorded here. The recommendations shown are what the reports propose.
The Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee, a group of councillors that checks the council's work, met on 16 July 2026. Members supported the final Director of Social Services' Annual Report, welcomed progress on adult services and noted progress on children's services. They also considered a safeguarding report and the council's 2025/26 performance report, and asked for several items to be added to the committee's future work programme.
The Committee noted that Councillor Sam Swash will chair it for the municipal year, and appointed Councillor Steve Copple as Vice-Chair. Members supported expanding overnight short-break places for disabled children and backed a recommendation to Full Council that the council signs the Young Carers Covenant. They also gave observations on the draft Director of Social Services' Annual Report and applauded the work of Hft's learning disability day services.
The Social and Health Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 23 March 2026 to review reports on social care services. Scrutiny means the committee checks council work and gives its views. It recommended that Cabinet, the council's senior councillors, approve three childcare building projects and give officers delegated authority, meaning power to act without a full council vote, to buy up to two children's homes a year.
On 12 February 2026 the committee considered seven reports: Social Services budget options for 2026/27, the social care workforce, a deferred charges audit, in-house regulated care services, support for vulnerable families, and two early years programmes. It agreed the recommendations on each item, and the minute records that Councillor Linda Thew declared an interest in the deferred charges item and withdrew for that item.
On 15 January 2026 the Committee considered its forward work programme, plus reports on the Tŷ Croes Atti care home, hospital discharge, digital technology in social services, and a practice model for children's services. Members noted progress on Tŷ Croes Atti, backed work to reduce discharge delays and avoid admissions, endorsed a digital social care framework, and supported Collaborative Communication training as a core requirement for children's staff.
The committee considered social services budget cost pressures for 2026/27, and reports on supported living, fostering and the Reconnect programme. It recommended that the Extra Care cost pressure is deferred to 2026/27. It also supported the progression model, the fostering expansion plans and the Reconnect approach to returning children from out of county placements.
The committee heard from the chair and chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, who answered questions. It also changed some dates in its forward work programme.
The committee considered its forward work programme, the Annual Performance Report 2024/25, the social services complaints and compliments report, and a report on assistive technology in social care. Members supported the Annual Performance Report, the effectiveness of the complaints procedure and the information on assistive technology. They noted the forward work programme and action tracking.
The Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee considered six items on 17 July 2025. Members supported the new Council Plan 2025-2030, the final draft of the Social Services Director's Annual Report and the focus areas for the council's Panel Performance Assessment, and noted the 2024/25 performance report and the childcare assessment.
The committee met on 5 June 2025 to consider three reports: safeguarding for adults and children, the Flying Start two-year-old childcare expansion, and the response to demand for hospital discharge support. Members accepted the safeguarding report and agreed to extend the Flying Start childcare programme. On hospital discharge, members only considered the update and the position put by ADSS Cymru, the association of social services directors.
The Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee, a council committee that checks and questions the council's work, met on 9 May 2025 to consider five reports. Members noted the forward work programme, reviewed the corporate risk register and the draft annual report, and noted progress on the Tŷ Croes Atti care home. The committee also noted the end of the Early Years Pathfinder programme and congratulated officers on its report.
The committee considered three items. It noted its forward work programme and progress on earlier actions. It supported and noted progress on the Coed y Ddraig day and work centre in Mold, and noted progress on social care's move to net zero carbon emissions.
The committee noted its forward work programme and action tracking, and an update on unpaid carers services in Flintshire. It also supported the sites proposed for Welsh Government childcare capital funding, and the early screening work on them.
The committee met on 14 February 2025 and dealt only with procedural matters. No declarations of interest were recorded. The committee resolved to exclude the press and public from the meeting, because the next item was considered exempt under the Local Government Act 1972.
The committee considered six reports on 17 January 2025, covering its work programme, the corporate risk register, Council Plan performance, in-house care services, the Director's Annual Report and the social services overspend plan. Members reviewed or noted each report, and on risk and performance they said they were assured by the arrangements and explanations given. The minutes record no decision to change any service or budget.
Members reviewed the Social Services budget cost pressures for 2025/26 and the response to an Audit Wales report on delays in discharging patients from hospital. They also accepted a proposal to end the joint Community Mental Health Team with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and noted or supported progress reports on care inspection, safeguarding, fostering and the workforce.
On 5 September 2024 the Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee considered reports on complaints about social services, the Micro-Care project, the residential care sector, the 2023/24 annual performance report and its forward work programme. Members supported the Micro-Care project, the actions needed to meet a predicted shortfall of care home places, and the annual performance report, and they agreed actions on the forward work programme.
Councillors on the Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee, who check council services, reviewed the Social Services Director's Annual Report for 2023/24 and the committee's forward work programme on 18 July 2024. They also considered a childcare building programme and a plan to charge for managing people's benefit payments. Members supported the annual report and the childcare proposals, and supported a charging structure for Appointeeship, with an extra option going to consultation and Cabinet to look at the plan before any final decision.
The committee met on 6 June 2024 and appointed a Vice-Chair. It also considered a safeguarding report, age-friendly communities work, a deferred charges audit, the draft Social Services annual report and an action plan following a care inspection, and it approved its forward work programme.
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