Councillors and committees

Committee details

Social Care Services Board

Purpose of committee

The Social Care Services Board is responsible for overseeing and scrutinising services for adults and children in Surrey, including services for:

 

Ø  Performance, finance and risk monitoring for social care services

Ø  Services for people with:

o   Special Educational Needs

o   Mental health needs, including those with problems with memory, language or other mental functions

o   Learning disabilities

o   Physical impairments

o   Long-term health conditions, such as HIV or AIDS

o   Sensory impairments

o   Multiple impairments and complex needs

Ø  Services for Carers

Ø  Social care services for prisoners

Ø  Safeguarding

Ø  Care Act 2014 implementation

Ø  Children’s Services, including

o   Looked After Children

o   Corporate Parenting

o   Fostering

o   Adoption

o   Child Protection

o   Children with disabilities

Ø  Transition

Ø  Youth Crime reduction and restorative approaches

 

We aim to improve services for the people of Surrey, to enable Councillors to exercise real influence in decision-making and policy development, to hold the Cabinet to account and continue to look for improved ways of working.

 

The Chairman of the Board is Keith Witham and the Vice-Chairman is Margaret Hicks.

 

The following Cabinet portfolios fall within the remit of this board;

 

Mel Few, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Wellbeing and Independence

 

Clare Curran, Cabinet Member for Children and Families Wellbeing

 

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Andy Spragg or Richard Plummer.

Phone: 020 8213 2673 or 020 8213 2782

Email: andrew.spragg@surreycc.gov.uk or richard.plummer@surreycc.gov.uk