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Cabinet portfolio for Health and Social Care
The Health and Social Care cabinet portfolio is outlined below. We have also highlighted the lead Scrutiny Committee responsible for each function.
Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee:
Adults of employment age to include:
- Care management (learning disability)
- Care management (mental health)
- Care management (physical disability)
- Disability services
- Specialist services (deaf/hearing impaired/disabled facility grants)
- Vocational support services
- Sexual health/HIV services
- Service provision (learning disability)
- Service provision (mental health)
- Supporting people
Older people to include:
- Care managmenet
- Service provision
- Community Older People's Team
- Rapid Assessment Team
Children to include:
- Care management
- Family support
- Child protection
- Residential service
- Adoption and fostering
- Mother and baby unit
- Teenage pregnancy
- Children with disabilities
Health to include:
- Review and scrutiny of primary, community and secondary health services both planned and provided to make sure they:
- take account of people's needs and aspirations
- are accessible to and can be accessed by all parts of the local community
- provide outcomes which are equally good for all groups and sections of the local population
