Time Together Gorseinon – getting councillors on board

Councillors on the Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board have been investigating the change that is happening to the way adult social care is delivered.  This change, known as the transformation programme , seeks to put the citizen right at the heart of service design and aims to build community capacity […]

Time Banking: A new approach for social care?

Last week the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Board visited an innovative and exciting project in the village of Blaen Garw in Bridgend as part of their current review into the work towards personalisation and transformation of adult social care in Swansea. The Board met with David Pugh who is Co-ordinator of […]

Overview & Scrutiny Board to monitor Social Inclusion Strategy Action Plan

Yesterday the Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board met to discuss the performance of the Social Inclusion Unit.  You can see the report in the agenda papers here. Councillors on the Board had previously voiced their concerns about reduced staffing levels within the Unit and its ability to deliver the advice […]

Health Social Care & Well Being – The Challenges

The Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board met this morning to discuss ideas for its work plan for the coming year.   To help the councillors pick topics for the work plan they had a presentation from Deboarh Driffield, Head of Adult Services. 06 service briefing View more documents from Dave Mckenna. […]