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Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care & Public Health

Forward Plan Ref: 2018/171

Contact: Rebecca Lanchbury, Strategic Commissioning Officer Tel: 07584 481255

Report by Deputy Director – Joint Commissioning (CA10).

The Innovation Fund for Daytime Support 2018-19 was open to applications from all community and voluntary organisations to deliver new innovative projects for daytime support in Oxfordshire.  The aim of the funding is to provide one-off funding to support the development of self-sustaining projects, delivering new opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire.

This report relates to the third round of the Innovation Fund which opened on 1 December 2018 and closed on 18 January 2019. There is £54,440.40 available in this fund.  As per the agreed cross-party decision-making process, the cross-party panel reviewed the applications and assessed them against grant criteria. Decisions on recommendations for award were coproduced with people who use services and supported by officer recommendations.

This report sets out the final cross-party panel recommendations for allocation of the Innovation Fund for Daytime Support 2018-19, for decision by Cabinet.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to approve:

(a)      for funding the bid listed under 23 (a) below;

(b)      the recommendation funding amounts for the bids listed under 23 (b) below;

(c)       the recommendation funding amount for the bid listed under 23 (c) below, subject to conditions as set out in the cross-party panel recommendations table below;

(d)      the recommendation to reject the bids listed under 23 (d) below.

Recommendations agreed. A list of projects agreed is attached as Annex 2.

The Innovation Fund for Daytime Support 2018-19 was open to applications from all community and voluntary organisations to deliver new innovative projects for daytime support in Oxfordshire.  The aim of the funding is to provide one-off funding to support the development of self-sustaining projects, delivering new opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire.

Cabinet had before them a report on the third round of the Innovation Fund. As per the agreed cross-party decision-making process, the cross-party panel reviewed the applications and assessed them against grant criteria. Decisions on recommendations for award were coproduced with people who use services and supported by officer recommendations.

The report set out the final cross-party panel recommendations for allocation of the Innovation Fund for Daytime Support 2018-19, for decision by Cabinet.

Councillor Laura Price, Opposition Deputy Leader, applauded the truly different types of provision emerging but expressed concern at the sustainability of projects. She felt that people would be seeking further funds down the line and that projects could stop if the Council could not find some way to continue funding. She noted that the Sustainability Fund was already over subscribed. Councillor Price also expressed concern that in funding individual projects there was consideration of the criteria of need for the project but no vision for the County as a whole. Councillor Price believed that there was a need for a clear county wide strategy, of mapping of that provision and a long term vision on how provision could survive.

Councillor Stratford accepted the challenge of sustainability. He paid tribute to the service users on the Panel who had robustly questioned applicants on their long term viability.

Councillor Reeves corrected the recommendation that should refer throughout to paragraph 24.

RESOLVED:             to approve:

(a)      for funding the bid listed under 24 (a) below;

(b)      the recommendation funding amounts for the bids listed under 24 (b) below;

(c)        the recommendation funding amount for the bid listed under 24 (c) below, subject to conditions as set out in the cross-party panel recommendations table below;

(d)      the recommendation to reject the bids listed under 24 (d) below.

N.B A list of projects agreed is attached as Annex 1to the Minutes.