Issue - meetings

Direct Payments

Meeting: 24/07/2017 - Governance Committee (Item 21)

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Report of the Service Director, Adults, Housing and Communities outlining the management response to the internal audit report on direct payments, attached.

Minutes:

The Committee received and noted the report of the Service Director: Adults, Housing and Communities detailing actions that had been taken to address concerns raised in the internal audit review of direct payments which had given an opinion of “no assurance”. 

 

The Committee noted that a robust action plan was in place to respond to the internal audit opinion and that Full Council had at its meeting on 19th July 2017 approved an additional £350,000 to establish a dedicated direct payments team which would support delivery of the management action plan and would be funded during 2017/18 by a Government grant.

 

The Committee requested that a workshop be arranged for all Members of the Council to provide an oversight of the processes for Adult Social Care Direct Payments and the customer’s journey.