Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, in association with Cabinet Members for Education and Change, Children's Safeguarding and Housing and Sustainability, seeking approval of the Southampton local plan for the Better Care Fund, attached.  

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14175)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To recommend that Council approve entering into a S75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 Partnership Agreement pooled fund, noting the minimum statutory requirement to pool £15.325m revenue and £1.526m capital.

(ii)  To recommend that Council approve exceeding the minimum requirement to pool up to the total value of the first 3 schemes identified in Section 13 of this report (Cluster development, Supporting carers and Integrated discharge, reablement and rehabilitation) from 1 April 2015, noting Southampton’s ambition to achieve integration at scale at a total cost of approximately £61m.

(iii)  To recommend that Council approve the addition of the remaining budgets included within Section 13 of this report into the pooled fund as and when appropriate, bringing the total value to approximately £132m.

(iv)  To recommend that Council delegate authority to the Director, People, following consultation with the lead Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, to (a) agree the terms and conditions of the pooled fund agreement under Section 75 (S75) of the National Health Service Act 2006 and (b) to carry out any ancillary actions needed to give effect to this recommendation.