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Health and Social Security - Approved Panel Minutes - 10 December 2015

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Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel

Record of Meeting

Date: 10th December 2015

 

Present

Deputy R. Renouf , Chairman Deputy G. Southern , Vice-Chairman Deputy T. McDonald

Apologies

 

Absent

 

In attendance

Deputy S. Pinel. Minister for Social Security Mr. I. Burns, Chief Officer

Mrs S. Duhamel, Director – Policy and Strategy Mr. S. Jackson , Operations Director

Miss K. Boydens , Scrutiny Officer

Miss L. Stoodley , Scrutiny Officer (acting up)

 

Ref Back

Agenda matter

Action

 

1. Records of Meetings

The Panel noted and approved the records of the meetings held on 26th and 27th November 2015. The Chairman thereby signed them accordingly.

The  Officer  agreed  that  the  record  for  18th  November  would  be amended as discussed by the Panel. It was noted the record would be included on the Panel's next agenda in order to be signed.

 

09/07/15 Item 1

517/1/1(6)

2. Quarterly Hearing with the Minister for Social Security

The Panel received the Minister for Social Security and her Officers for a Quarterly Public Hearing. The proceedings were recorded in order that a transcript could be made.

 

07/12/15 Item 1

517/32

3. Staff Recruitment and Retention

The  Officer  informed  the  Panel  that  documents  which  had  been mentioned in the Public Hearing on Monday 7th December with the Minister for Health and Social Services had been requested from the Health and Social Services Department.

The Officer advised the Panel that they would receive heads of report by the end of next week and subsequently drafting of the report would commence.

KB

27/11/15 Item 1

517/33

4. Zero-Hours Contracts

The Officer advised that the Panel would receive a first draft of the report to be considered over the Christmas break.

LS

 

26/11/15 Item 4

517/23

5. Future Hospital Sub-Panel

The  Panel  noted  that  a  confirmation  date  for  a  briefing  from  the department had not yet been received.

The  Panel  also  noted  that  they  were  still  awaiting  a  confidentiality agreement from the Department in order to receive Council of Ministers minutes from 14th October 2015.

 

26/11/15 Item 5

517/34

6. Living on Low Income

The  Panel  discussed  and  made  amendments  to  the  Terms  of Reference for the review.

The Panel agreed that the Officer would make the changes and then circulate the document to the Panel to be approved via email.

KB

517/1/1(1)

7. Work Programme

The Panel briefly discussed possible topics to review in 2016. The Panel agreed to include Minimum Wage, Private Delivery of Social Care and Regulation of Care Law onto their work programme for 2016.

The Panel concurred that they were relatively busy for the first six months  of  the  year  and  acknowledged  that  they  would  not  have sufficient time to review all topics on the list.

 

 

8. Future Meetings

The Panel noted that its next scheduled meeting would take place on 14th January 2016 at 9:30am in the Le Capelain room, States Building.