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The Panel met on 22 September 2026 to consider three items: the West Glamorgan regional transformation programme, the inspection action plan for the Community Mental Health Team (North), and transport to day services. On the mental health item, the Panel agreed that mental health services should remain under scrutiny. The minute records no other decisions.
The Panel met on 21 July 2026 to start the new council year. It confirmed Cllr Susan Jones as Convener, considered recent inspection outcomes for Adult Services, May 2026 performance figures and progress on the Better Care commitments. It also agreed its work plan for 2026-27, including a new item on the Community Mental Health Team inspection.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.
The Panel considered the Adult Services performance report for November 2025, covering demand, early help, reablement, care at home and safeguarding. It also heard an update on the Adult Services Transformation and Improvement Programme. The minutes record no decisions. The only action recorded is to arrange a visit to the Smart Suite, a technology demonstration facility, early in the new municipal year.
At its meeting on 8 December 2025, the Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel received a briefing on recent inspections of The Hollies and St John's care homes, a presentation on the Council's internal day services, and an update on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). The minutes record no formal decisions, except that the Panel welcomed the inspection results and asked for its thanks to be passed to staff, and officers agreed to share the day services slides.
The Panel heard an update on Early Help, the council's support to help adults stay independent and avoid long-term care, and considered the Adult Services performance report for August 2025. It also agreed to add a report on recent inspections to its December 2025 meeting. The minutes record no formal decision on the first two items.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel heard a briefing from the Cabinet Member for Care Services and officers on how health and social care work together to discharge patients from hospital. It also had the Director of Social Services Annual Report 2024-25 before it for information. The minutes record no decisions on these items.
The Panel met on 9 July 2025 at the start of the 2025-26 year. It also considered the annual performance return for Adult Services for 2024-25, which goes to Welsh Government. Officers said care needs are being met but that this is not sustainable if demand keeps rising.
The Panel heard updates on the West Glamorgan Transformation Programme, the March 2025 performance report and the Council's progress on its Adult Services policy commitments. It also reviewed its own work for 2024-25 and agreed to add two items to its 2025-26 work plan. The minutes record no decisions on the first three updates, which were for information and discussion.
The Panel considered the Performance Monitoring Report for November 2024 and received an update on the Adult Services Transformation Programme. The Panel agreed to add an item on hospital discharges and the step-down process to its 2025-26 work plan, and agreed to make informal visits to some establishments.
The Panel considered two briefings on 11 December 2024: the annual report on Adult Services and Child and Family Services complaints for 2023-24, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), a legal process for people who cannot consent and need to be kept safe in a hospital or care home. The published minutes record no decisions. The Panel also received the Director of Social Services' annual report, for which no minute has yet been published.
The Panel heard updates on the West Glamorgan emotional wellbeing and mental health strategy, Local Area Coordination, and the Adult Services performance report for August 2024. The only decision recorded in the minutes is that progress updates on the mental health strategy will come back to the Panel.
On 10 September 2024 the Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel heard updates on the council's response to an Audit Wales report on social enterprises, a briefing on the Care Inspectorate Wales inspection of adult services, and a briefing on residential care. The minutes record no formal decisions. The Panel asked for further information on social enterprises and said it wants progress on the inspection findings shown in future performance reports.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 9 July 2024, its first meeting of 2024-25. It also reviewed April 2024 performance figures, where officers reported high demand and budget pressures.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 7 May 2024. Members heard from Llais, the independent body that gives the public a voice on health and social care, and from Cabinet Members on how the Council's policy commitments apply to Adult Services. The Panel also reviewed its work for 2023-24 and recorded actions to add items to its future work plan.
The Panel received an update on the West Glamorgan regional transformation programme, a performance report for Adult Services for January 2024, and a briefing on the annual review of social services charges. The minute records no decisions on the first two items. It records that Cabinet had already agreed a 6% rise in social services charges from 1 April 2024, and a consultation on a new one-off Lifeline charge.
The Scrutiny Performance Panel for Adult Services, a group of councillors that checks the council's care services, met on 30 January 2024. It heard an update on the Adult Services Transformation Programme and a presentation on Local Area Coordination, where Panel members opposed any loss of posts amid funding pressures. The minutes record no decisions by the Panel, and the Council has not yet decided on Local Area Coordination posts.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 12 December 2023 to review the October 2023 performance report and to hear a briefing on dementia care, including case studies. The minutes record no formal decisions. They record requests for further information on dementia prevention work and on the Marie Curie respite project, and the Panel's letter to Cabinet Members asks for written replies by 23 January 2024.
The Panel discussed the Director of Social Services' Annual Report 2022-23 and a briefing on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), a legal process for authorising the deprivation of liberty of an adult who lacks capacity to consent to care, such as in a care home. The replacement law, Liberty Protection Safeguards, has been delayed by several years.
The Panel reviewed the Adult Services performance report for July 2023 and a report on the Council's response to the Audit Wales report 'A missed opportunity' on social enterprises. The minutes record actions to add more information on safeguarding referrals and Deprivation of Liberty to future reports, and to bring an update on social enterprises to the work plan for January 2024. The Panel's views were sent to Cabinet Members in a letter dated 2 October 2023.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 7 August 2023 and discussed three items: the Wales Audit Office report 'Together We Can' on community resilience and self-reliance, the Tackling Poverty Service grants report for 2022-23, and additional information on direct payments. The minutes record discussion only, with one decision: the Panel added a briefing on Llais to its work plan. The Panel's views were sent to Cabinet Members in a letter dated 29 August 2023.
It received the Adult Services performance report for April 2023 and a briefing on two unscheduled inspections of care homes by Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), the body that inspects registered care services. It agreed its 2023-24 work plan with a briefing on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) added. The minutes record no decision on the performance report or the inspections.
The Scrutiny Performance Panel for Adult Services met to consider Adult Services complaints for 2021-22, how the Council's policy commitments apply to adult care, progress on commissioning reviews (reviews of how services are bought or run), and its own review of 2022-23. The minutes record no formal decisions. The one action is for the Cabinet Member for Care Services to circulate reports on housing and homelessness to the Panel.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel, a group of councillors who check how council services perform, heard updates on the West Glamorgan health and social care partnership, performance figures for January 2023 and Local Area Coordination. It also received a briefing on the annual review of social services charges, and the minute says Cabinet has signed off the proposals. The minutes record no decisions on the first three items.
The Panel met on 31 January 2023 to hear an update on the Adult Services Transformation Programme, a review of assistive technology and community alarms, and monthly performance figures for November 2022. The minute records no new decision by the Panel on these items; it records the April 2022 choice to keep community alarms and assistive technology in-house. The Panel also raised a concern about hospital discharge instructions and asked for more information.
At its meeting on 8 November 2022, a panel of councillors that scrutinises (examines) adult social care in Swansea considered the Council's response to a Wales Audit Office report on direct payments, a briefing on recent Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) inspections, the Director of Social Services' annual report for 2021/22 and its work programme. The minutes record no formal decisions on the reports, but the Panel asked for a leaflet, personal stories of how direct payments are used and a definition of 'Complex Care'. The Panel's letter to the Cabinet Member, sent after the meeting, asks for written responses by 29 December 2022.
The Panel's first meeting of the 2022-23 council year looked at the Panel's own role and how it works. It also heard an overview of Adult Services from the Cabinet Member for Care Services, Councillor Louise Gibbard. Members agreed the Panel's work programme for the year and agreed to invite Tony Beddow to join the Panel as a co-optee, which means a non-councillor who sits on a council panel.