Following an assessment by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Brent Council's Adult Services have been rated as’ Requires Improvement’.
Despite concerns over its own effectiveness, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) today (August 16) published the outcome of a recent inspection into services for adults who require care and support in Brent.
The report highlights both areas of good practice and those which require further development. The council was recognised for making ‘significant improvements’ and as having ‘focused leaders’, while adult safeguarding is ‘working effectively in Brent’.
The report highlights several other strengths, for example care and support was planned and organised with people, together with partners and communities to promote safety across care journeys and continuity in care. Also, financial assessments are carried out in a timely way and the uptake of direct payments, which improves people’s control over how their care and support needs are met is good.
James Bullion, CQC’s chief inspector of adult social care and integrated care, said: “At this assessment, we found Brent Council’s adult social care services were being led by focused leaders, who had recently made significant improvements, with more due to be implemented as part of a wide scale transformation of services. This transformation acknowledged that there were areas for improvement, with some areas further along the journey than others which matches what we saw in our assessment.
