Decision details

The Chairman introduced the report, which provided the Committee with an update on the Personal Assistant (PA) Service provided by Your Choice Barnet. 

Councillor Jess Brayne MOVED the following motions:  

1. That the Committee agrees to write to Secretary of State for Adults Social Care and Health, asking for Barnet to receive its adequate and fair share of funding for Adult Social Care.

2. That the Committee request that Barnet Members of Parliament make similar representations on Barnet’s behalf.

The Chairman moved to the vote on the motions.  Votes were recorded as follows:

The motion was LOST.

The Strategic Director for Adults, Communities and Health suggested that the Committee could consider a report on integrated care and the Care Closer to Home Network.  The Chairman advised that he would welcome such a report.  Ms. Wakeling undertook to add this to the Forward Work Programme.

A Member noted that the report stated that the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) had suggested that an additional £1 billion was needed to cover the unavoidable costs of demography, inflation, and the national living wage, and questioned what the expectations of Barnet’s contribution to this would be.  Ms. Wakeling undertook to provide this information to the Committee outside the meeting.       

Following the consideration of the report, the Chairman MOVED to the vote on the recommendations set out in the report.

The Committee unanimously RESOLVED:.

1.     That the Adults and Safeguarding Committee notes the performance of the Personal Assistants Service and the continued work to maximise referrals to the service from the direct payment service users.