Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care

Forward Plan Ref: 2017/077

Contact: Eleanor Crichton, Strategic Commissioner (Older People) Tel: 07774 335652/Natalia Lachkou, Strategic Commissioner (Vulnerable Adults) Tel: 07881 500344

Report by Director for Adult Services (CA11).

Under Section 75 of the National Health Services Act 2006, the Council has an existing and long-standing agreement with Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, to pool resources and deliver shared objectives.  Oxfordshire has amongst the largest genuinely pooled budgets in the country.  That reflects our commitment to joining up our commissioning and using resources flexibly for the benefit of people who need care.

The overarching intention is to work together across service areas will lead to better outcomes for service users, more effective decision making, and use of pooled resources. In order to build on our shared work we are now proposing two pooled budgets for 2017/18 and 2018/19, bringing resources together to make a real difference to the people of Oxfordshire and to meet the national Better Care Fund requirements:

a) A pool for Adults with Care and Support Needs that that brings together the previous mental health and learning disability pools together with resources that support people living with acquired brain injury and autism.

b) A Better Care Fund pool that brings together elements of the former Older People’s and Physical Disability Pooled Budgets. This will be structured around three key elements – care homes, community resilience and hospital avoidance, prevention and carer support.

These pooled budgets will deliver the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2015 - 2019 key priorities for adult health and social care.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)       approve the outline proposed pooled budget arrangements with Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, including the creation of two pooled budgets for Adults with Care and Support Needs and for the Better Care Fund;

(b)      delegate responsibility for approving the detail of the schedules for 2017/18, including the final contributions and risk share arrangements, to the Director for Adult Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care;

(c)       approve the proposal to hold two joint management groups.

Recommendations agreed.

Under Section 75 of the National Health Services Act 2006, the Council has an existing and long-standing agreement with Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, to pool resources and deliver shared objectives. In order to build on this shared work Cabinet considered a report proposing two pooled budgets for 2017/18 and 2018/19, bringing resources together to make a real difference to the people of Oxfordshire and to meet the national Better Care Fund requirements

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)       approve the outline proposed pooled budget arrangements with Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, including the creation of two pooled budgets for Adults with Care and Support Needs and for the Better Care Fund;

(b)       delegate responsibility for approving the detail of the schedules for 2017/18, including the final contributions and risk share arrangements, to the Director for Adult Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care;

(c)       approve the proposal to hold two joint management groups.