Decision details

The Group Director, Community and Children’s Services provided Members with the Director, Social Services Annual Report. The Group Director explained that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there had been difficulties carrying out the usual level of public engagement, but assured the Cabinet that service users had been consulted as part of compiling the report. As such, the Group Director requested for the report to go through the Scrutiny process and avoid any wider public consultation.

The Group Director informed the Cabinet that the report set out the priorities for the 2020-21 Municipal Year but recognised that the substantial impact of Covid-19 could affect the delivery of those priorities.

Both the Cabinet Member for Adult Community Services & Welsh Language and the Cabinet Member for Children & Young People thanked the Group Director for the comprehensive report, despite the challenges faced by the service.

The Cabinet RESOLVED:

1.    To note the draft Rhondda Cynon Taf Director of Social Services Annual Report and scrutinise its contents.

County Borough Councillor R Bevan declared the following: ‘As granted by the Standards Committee on the 29^th November 2019, I have a dispensation to speak and vote on all matters relating to the Community and Children’s Services Group, save for any specific matters that directly affect my daughter, who is employed by the Council in the Community and Children’s Services Group.’