Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/045

Contact: Pippa Corner, Deputy Director Commissioning, pippa.corner@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director of Adult Social Care (CA15).

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to approve, following the extensive work with partners described in the paper, the draft in Annex 1 for publication and submission to Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC).

Recommendations approved.

Councils are required to publish a Market Sustainability Plan detailing how they intend to meet market needs in the next 3 years.  Cabinet was recommended to approve the draft plan in Annex 1 of the report.

Councillor Tim Bearder, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, introduced the report.  The proposed plan included an increased offer to providers.  It was a difficult time for them with all of their costs going up.  The short term increase in funding from the Government was welcome but providers need radical reform for the long term.  However, the Council has been able to use extra funding to bring legacy providers up to consistent standards.

Councillor Calum Miller, Cabinet Member for Finance, added that Oxfordshire had a high provision of care as well as high costs of care.  He noted that decisions on adult social care appeared to come from the Treasury rather than the Department for Health and Social Care.  Promised solutions have not been delivered.  He thanked officers and the social care sector for its input into the Plan.

The recommendations were proposed by Councillor Bearder, seconded by Councillor Miller and agreed.

RESOLVED to:

approve, following the extensive work with partners described in the paper, the draft in Annex 1 for publication and submission to Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC).