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Better Care Fund Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Budget 2017/18)

Meeting: 26/04/2017 - Cabinet (Item 7)

7 Better Care Fund Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Budget 2017-18) & Additional Adult Social Care monies announced during the Spring 2017 Budget statement pdf icon PDF 93 KB

[To agree to continue the Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Fund) and to delegate authority to approve the final terms of the proposed section 75 agreement.]

Decision:

1. That the report proposing the use of the additional non-recurring monies announced during the Spring 2017 budget statement be noted and received.

2. That it be agreed to renew the Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Fund) with NHS Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group (“WCCG”) for 2017-18.

3. That authority be delegated to the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Cabinet members for Adults, Public Health and Well Being and Resources, (Cllrs. Roger Lawrence, Paul Sweet, Sandra Samuels OBE and Andrew Johnson), in consultation with Strategic Director for People and Director of Finance, to approve the final terms of the proposed Section 75 Agreement.

Minutes:

Councillor Sandra Samuels sought approval to renew the Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Fund) with NHS Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group for 2017-18 and delegate authority to approve the final terms of the proposed Section 75 Agreement. The report outlined the proposed use of the additional non-recurring monies that had been announced in the Spring 2017 budget statement. The monies would be focussed on areas including Behaviour Change/Demand Management programme implementation and the Reconfiguration of Older People’s service activity. An amendment to recommendation 3 of the report was requested to include the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board as an additional recipient of the delegated authority.

 

Resolved:

 

1. That the report proposing the use of the additional non-recurring monies announced during the Spring 2017 budget statement be noted and received.

2. That it be agreed to renew the Section 75 Agreement (Pooled Fund) with NHS Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group (“WCCG”) for 2017-18.

3. That authority be delegated to the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Cabinet members for Adults, Public Health and Well Being and Resources, (Cllrs. Roger Lawrence, Paul Sweet, Sandra Samuels OBE and Andrew Johnson), in consultation with Strategic Director for People and Director of Finance, to approve the final terms of the proposed Section 75 Agreement.