{"id":85590,"date":"2025-05-08T21:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85590\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:07:18","slug":"adult-care-falls-short-of-good-rating-in-south-gloucestershire-after-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85590\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult care falls short of ‘good’ rating in South Gloucestershire after assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assessment was that service ‘requires improvement’News<\/a><\/p>\n

Kirstie McCrum<\/strong> Network Content Editor<\/p>\n

15:15, 08 May 2025Updated 15:39, 08 May 2025<\/p>\n

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The social care provision for adults in South Gloucestershire has been rated as \u2018requires improvement\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) gave the local authority an overall rating of 59 per cent – four per cent short of a ‘good’ rating – following an assessment last year.<\/p>\n

Inspectors said that people\u2019s care and support was planned, organised and improved their safety, but that experiences were \u201cmixed\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report identified that communication and processes between adult social care and mental health teams needed to improve and that the local authority needed to do more to ensure people were protected from abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n

In the CQC report, published on Thursday (May 8) it said: \u201cWe found the local authority was not meeting their responsibilities to provide legal protection for vulnerable people in a timely manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Gloucestershire Council<\/a> said that assessors were “clear… in their confidence that the council is aware of the issues the CQC identified as needing to improve, and that there are plans in place to address them, which are already showing results”.<\/p>\n

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Responding to the CQC\u2019s findings, Cllr John O\u2019Neil, cabinet member with responsibility for Adult Social Care, said: \u201cAs leaders of the service, we accept the CQC\u2019s findings and are committed to supporting our frontline staff to deliver an even better service in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have plans in place to make the changes in practice that we need to.<\/p>\n

“The parts of the service highlighted for improvement were all areas known to us and where we are working to make the needed changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have confidence in our teams to deliver and indeed, we are already seeing improvements.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur staff are rightly proud of the work they do every day to make our residents\u2019 lives better, and I know they have great relationships with the people they work with.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things the CQC highlighted as a strength in South Gloucestershire<\/a> adult social care services is the way our staff talk with and listen to the individuals they support, putting them at the centre of their care, where they should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the publication of the CQC report, the council has stated that it will formally adopt an improvement plan.<\/p>\n

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