Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adults to seek approval for ongoing support for the adult social care market to enable the Council meets its Care Act 2014 statutory duties to ensure there remains a diverse, sustainable and high-quality health and social care market within the city, despite the challenges to providers from the response to COVID-19. Also to ensure market readiness to respond to the pressures anticipated for the local health and care system this winter and any potential future spikes in COVID-19.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 20/21 29486)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult

  Care, Cabinet agreed the following modified recommendations:

(i)  To agree a budget of £1.9 million for adult social care to manage financial pressures within the care market in the city and to prevent care provider failure between October 2020 and 31^st March 2021. This to be provided within the total forecast expenditure for Adult Social Care as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(ii)  To provide delegated authority to the Executive Director Wellbeing (Health & Adults)  following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Health and Adults, the Cabinet Member for Finance and Income Generation and the Executive Director for Finance and Commercialisation to agree support to care providers or segments of the market where a need has been identified and evidenced.