14 Developing the Project Agreement with the Oxfordshire Care Partnership
Cabinet Member: Adult Services
Forward Plan Ref: 2013/001
Contact: Simon Kearey, Porgramme Manager Tel: (01865) 323571
Report by Director for Social & Community Services, Director for Environment & Economy and Assistant Chief Executive & Chief Finance Officer (CA15).
The information contained in the report and annexes is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:
3 – information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would distort the proper process of free negotiations between the authority with another party for the purposes described and would prejudice the position of the authority in those negotiations and other negotiations of a similar nature in future.
This report sets out proposals for developments in the relationship that the Council has with the Oxfordshire Care Partnership for the provision of services for the care and support of older people in Oxfordshire.
The contract with the Oxfordshire Care Partnership, known as the Project Agreement, was signed in December 2001 (see Background Paper 1). Since then there have been significant changes in the needs of older people, important developments in the services and facilities that older people can choose and in the aspirations and choices that older people make for their care. There have also been significant changes in the financial circumstances facing the public sector.
It is important that the Council and the Oxfordshire Care Partnership respond to these changes and continue to meet the needs of older people to the same high standards under the Project Agreement as effectively as they have since the Project Agreement was signed. Therefore, a number of service developments are required to meet the range of needs with which increasing numbers of older people need help, to give older people and their families’ real choice about how their care needs are met and to meet the financial challenges facing the Council.
Meeting these challenges will require some revision of the Project Agreement, whilst ensuring that the Oxfordshire Care Partnership continues to have a secure basis from which to operate therefore ensuring the contract remains viable. This report summarises the proposed revisions to the Agreement and the service developments that will be supported by these changes.
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Minutes:
The information contained in the report and annexes is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:
3 – information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would distort the proper process of free negotiations between the authority with another party for the purposes described and would prejudice the position of the authority in those negotiations and other negotiations of a similar nature in future.
Cabinet considered a report that set out proposals for developments in the relationship that the Council has with the Oxfordshire Care Partnership for the provision of services for the care and support of older people in Oxfordshire. Meeting recent challenges required some revision of the Project Agreement so that the Partnership continued to have a secure basis from which to operate therefore ensuring the contract remained viable. The report summarised the proposed revisions to the Agreement and the service developments that will be supported by these changes.
Cabinet agreed the proposed revisions and service developments as set out in the exempt report.