Committee details

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