Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/083

Contact: Alan Sinclair, Transforming Adult Social Care Director Tel: (01865) 323665/Jon Wilcox, Finance Officer Tel: (01865) 323665

Report by Director of Social & Community Services (CA 9).

As part of the Transforming Adult Social Care Programme the Resource Allocation System, sometimes referred to as a RAS, has been developed to as a method of matching the level of the person’s need (as indicated by an assessment) to the amount of money to be made available to them.

The Resource Allocation System aims:

•              To set out clearly what levels of funding will be provided at different levels of need.

•              To provide a guide to how an indicative budget is arrived at. This would take the form of setting out the likely level of budget for particular range of scores in the overview assessment.

•              To serve as a framework within which decisions about changes to the formula can be made.

This is being brought to the Cabinet as the resource allocation system has implications for future budgeting decisions and planning for the County Council. Cabinet are asked to recommend the proposed policy that would govern the resource allocation system for approval by the County Council in September 2010.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)               note the report;

(b)              recommend to Council to approve the introduction of the Policy for the operation of personal budgets in Oxfordshire from October 2010; and

(c)               agree that a further report be brought to a future Cabinet meeting to approve any changes to the Policy for the financial year 2011/12.

Cabinet considered a report (CA9) that asked Cabinet to recommend, for approval by the County Council in September 2010, the proposed policy that would govern the resource allocation system.

Cabinet noted that a briefing was to be held for all Councillors following the extraordinary Council meeting on 27 July 2010.

RESOLVED:                        to:

(a)               note the report;

(b)               recommend to Council to approve the introduction of the Policy for the operation of personal budgets in Oxfordshire from October 2010; and

agree that a further report be brought to a future Cabinet meeting to approve any changes to the Policy for the financial year 2011/12.