Monday, November 06, 2006

Another bad Report For The Leadership and the Council Exective

INSPECTION OF SOCIAL CARE SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL
JUNE 2006

Scrutiny, performance and risk management systems were not sufficiently developed or aligned across health and social care functions. The County Council’s Executive and Overview and Scrutiny Committee had not given sufficient weight to monitoring the outcomes and quality of services delivered on its behalf through the annual strategic agreement. There was work to be done to build a shared approach to medium term financial planning and to enable resources to be more tightly aligned to priorities. Workforce planning needed to be more strategic to support the performance improvement and modernisation programmes.

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