Care strategy making 'good progress'

CITY council chiefs have said that "good progress" is being made on a new commissioning strategy that is being drawn up following the care and support tender fiasco.

An independent report into the abandoned plans to re-tender the care of nearly 800 of the Capital's most vulnerable people had found that the lack of an overarching commissioning strategy was among the failings.

Former council chief executive Tom Aitchison then admitted that consultation with service users was flawed and ordered that a commissioning strategy be drawn up.

Now an update for members of the council's audit committee has insisted the new strategy is moving forward. In the report, departing director of corporate services Jim Inch said: "Good progress has been made in developing the commissioning strategy and an improved approach to engaging with service users, carers and partners."