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The committee heard how the council's Offender Assessment and Liaison Team (OALT) provides social care inside HMP Berwyn. It also received an update on urgent and emergency care pressures at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, noted the draft work programme and agreed the membership of the Child Poverty Task and Finish Group. The minutes record no decisions on the prison or hospital items, only thanks and requests for further information.
The committee considered three items: the relocation of the Cunliffe Day Service to Acton Resource Centre, child poverty, and its work programme. It commended officers and Lead Members on their report on the relocation and asked for more detailed reports on controversial issues in future. It agreed to reconvene its Child Poverty Task and Finish Group in October 2026 and approved its work programme, subject to one change.
The Safeguarding, Communities and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee, which also carries out the council's crime and disorder scrutiny, met on 18 June 2026. It agreed its work programme, received the 2025/26 social care budget outturn (the final year-end spending figures), which showed a pressure of about £3.6 million, and heard an update on removing profit from children's care. The committee agreed to thank staff and to receive further reports on both budget and profit-removal matters.
The committee considered an update on plans to move the Cunliffe day service, which supports adults with complex disabilities, to Acton Resource Centre. It noted a revised plan to extend the Acton centre so that community groups keep space there, and it supports continued engagement with members, groups, families, carers and staff.
The committee considered a proposal to move day services from Cunliffe Day Centre to Acton Community Resource Centre and agreed to ask for a further report in September 2026. Members also noted a legal information report, agreed the committee's work programme and heard an update on social care recruitment and retention.
The committee agreed its work programme for the coming year, with changes. These include a joint session with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board on Accident and Emergency (A&E) services and a rescheduled Market Stability Report. It also considered the annual contract monitoring report on statutory care services and asked for more detail on costs, placements and funding rules in a future report.
On 11 February 2026 the Safeguarding, Communities and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee, which also acts as the Crime and Disorder Scrutiny Committee, reviewed council work, meaning councillors check how services are run. It agreed its work programme, subject to changes, and asked for regular updates on the planned move of the Cunliffe Centre, a day service for adults with disabilities. It also asked for a fuller toilet strategy report, due in February 2027, because the draft lacked detail on outlying villages and visitor sites.
At its meeting on 14 January 2026 the committee agreed its work programme, with changes including dropping the library review from the agenda and adding a Fire Service item. It also considered a report on social care services at HMP Berwyn prison, where no prison representative attended, and it asked for written answers to its questions before the next meeting in mid-February.
The committee met to agree its work programme (its list of planned reports) and to consider a report on childcare in Wrexham. It agreed the work programme, subject to changes that moved the childcare item forward and put back the HMP Berwyn and toilet strategy items. It thanked officers for the childcare report and asked for a further report in 2027 on progress in the sector.
The committee agreed its work programme, which lists the topics it will consider in the coming months. It also reviewed the Wrexham Community Safety Partnership's 2024/25 performance report and accepted the report's recommendations. The HMP Berwyn item was deferred to the New Year because of technical problems.
The committee agreed its work programme for the coming months, with some changes, including moving the HMP Berwyn prison report to November. It also received a progress report from the social care department on its improvement and transformation work, and thanked officers and staff for it.
The committee considered an update on support for unpaid carers and young carers in Wrexham, and a draft work programme for 2025-26. On carers, it welcomed the report and asked for future reports to show which communities use the service. On the work programme, it agreed to revise the Berwyn Prison and Community Safety topic forms and to invite North Wales Fire and Rescue Service to those items.
The committee met on 9 July 2025 to consider its work programme, a presentation from the Welsh Ambulance Service on current pressures, and an update on GP access in Wrexham. It agreed to thank the speakers and asked for a joint report next year from the Ambulance Service, Wrexham Maelor Hospital and council social care.
The committee agreed changes to its work programme, moving the library review to September and turning the child poverty discussion into a task and finish session on 11 June. It also considered a report on fostering services and a report on reviews of supported living for people with learning disabilities. On both reports it thanked officers and asked for more detail in future, and on supported living it asked for a visit to the teams.
The committee agreed its work programme for the coming months, moving the HMP Berwyn prison item to September and the adult service update to the autumn term. It also received a report on winter pressures in health and social care in 2024/25 and thanked the officers who wrote it. Members expressed disappointment that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board had not attended again.
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