Overview and Scrutiny

Social Care committee

The committee will scrutinise the quality and performance of all social care related services delivered by the Council.

The remit and scope of the committee in relation to social care related services is as follows:

• Adult care
• Children’s services
• Strategic joint commissioning
• Carers
• Integrated services and well-being
• Domiciliary care
• Work with the third sector
• Compliance with the Social Services and Well-being Act
• West Wales Care Partnership
• Regional safeguarding
• Regional fostering
• Regional adoption

The committee has 13 members and will meet at least five times per year. Details of committee members and future meetings, along with the committee work programme, can be found below.

Social care overview and scrutiny committee

 

 

19 June 2025

• Item: Working with the 3rd sector   
• Purpose: To understand and consider 3rd sector provision including respite care and care homes.

• Item: Homelessness
• Purpose: To understand the scale of homelessness within the County and what is being done and what can be done.

• Item: Corporate Risk Register and Corporate Score Card
• Purpose: To be reviewed and for areas for scrutiny to be identified.

• Item: Review of Children’s residential placements – to include children’s out of County placements  
• Purpose: Referral from Corporate overview and scrutiny committee

• Item: Care for Vulnerable Younger Adults, Children in Care post 16 support and safeguarding
• Purpose: To have ongoing scrutiny and oversight to ensure that adequate measures are in place to comply with our statutory duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults – To include the Governors support on safeguarding in education (Bi-annual update) and to understand what support is provided/required.

• Item: Transitioning to new services adult and child services in the Authority     
• Purpose: An update on the services and the transition.

 

11 September 2025

• Item: Residential placements update          
• Purpose: Update on the residential placements for children and to review the placement commissioning strategy.

• Item: Operation Salus            
• Purpose: Update on phase 2 of Operation Salus.

• Item: Strategy for Keeping Families Together          
• Purpose: Update on the action plan.

 

13 November 2025  

• Item: Neath Port Talbot          
• Purpose: That the Committee receive a report on the work of Neath Port Talbot and the academics.

• Item: Director of Social Care Directors Report       
• Purpose: To receive the report.

• Item: Update from the West Wales Regional Partnership Board 
• Purpose: To receive an update.

 

January 2026

• Item: Budget 2025-26            
• Purpose: To discuss the budget.

• Item: Young carers   
• Purpose: To understand the support that is required and available.

• Item: Poverty 
• Purpose: To obtain an overall understanding of the scale of poverty within the County and how the Authority can support the Social care service – to present the report received by Policy and Pre-Decisions.

• Item: Working with the voluntary and community sector in Pembrokeshire     
• Purpose: The Committee requested an understanding of how and what finances have been applied for and the impact on the removal of the winter fuel allowance.

• Item: Residential placements update          
• Purpose: Update on the residential placements for children and to review the placement commissioning strategy.

• Item: Children’s services      
• Purpose: Update on the work of the Children’s services improvement and development under Operation Salus.