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Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care & Public Health

Forward Plan Ref: 2019/120

Contact: Rebecca Lanchbury, Commissioning Officer (Older People) Tel: 07584 481255

Report by Deputy Director for Joint Commissioning (CA9).

The Innovation and Sustainability Funds were introduced in 2018, following the review of daytime support services and the implementation of a new, flexible countywide system of daytime support in Oxfordshire. 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.

This report is regarding the Innovation & Sustainability Funds for Daytime Support, administered by Adult Social Care to support the development of daytime opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire. This fund helps support people to live well at home and in their communities.

The aim of the sustainability funding is to provide support to existing services and the innovation funding is to provide one-off funding to support the development of self-sustaining projects, delivering new opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire.

This round of applications to the Innovation and Sustainability Funds opened on 12 August 2019 and the closing date for both funds was originally 20 September 2019. However, an unprecedented number of requests to extend the deadline resulted in an extension of the closing date to 30 September 2019.

Funding of £250,000 per annum is available through the Sustainability Fund from 2020/21 to 2022/23.  We received 38 applications to this fund, requesting an overall amount of £370,634.30 in 2020/21. 30 applicants applied for funding over the 3-year period with further total requests of £282,499 in 2021/22 and £248,200 in 2022/23. 

The Innovation Fund totals £123,265 in 2020/21, and we received 5 applications to this fund, requesting an overall amount of £63,097.00 in 2020/21.

The strategic plan is to move towards a rolling three-year programme of awards for the Sustainability Fund, whereby a third of the available funding is awarded each year to applicants requesting funding over a three-year period.

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, supported by officers pre- scoring.

This paper sets out the final cross-party panel recommendations for allocation of the Innovation and Sustainability Funds for Daytime Support 2020-21, for decision by Cabinet.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)       approve the recommendations, as set out under 28 (a-b);

(b)       approve the recommendation to transfer £40,138 from the Innovation Fund 2020/21 to the Sustainability Fund 2020/21, to cover the extra funding awarded, as set out under 28(c);

(c)       to carry forward the remaining balance of £39,430 from the Innovation Fund 2020/21 to the Innovation Fund 2021/22, as set out under 28 (d).

Recommendations Agreed.

Cabinet considered a report on the Innovation and Sustainability Funds, which had been introduced in 2018, following the review of daytime support services and the implementation of a new, flexible countywide system of daytime support in Oxfordshire. 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.

This report outlined the Innovation & Sustainability Funds for Daytime Support, administered by Adult Social Care to support the development of daytime opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire. The fund helped support people to live well at home and in their communities.

The aim of the sustainability funding was to provide support to existing services and the innovation funding was to provide one-off funding to support the development of self-sustaining projects, delivering new opportunities for adults in Oxfordshire.

The round of applications to the Innovation and Sustainability Funds opened on 12 August 2019 and the closing date for both funds was originally 20 September 2019. However, an unprecedented number of requests to extend the deadline resulted in an extension of the closing date to 30 September 2019.

The report set out the final cross-party panel recommendations for allocation of the Innovation and Sustainability Funds for Daytime Support 2020-21.

Councillor Lawrie Stratford, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health in moving the recommendations thanked the cross party working group for their work on finding what was best for the residents and thanked the service users who had contributed.

Councillor Heathcoat, Deputy Leader of the Council welcomed the proposals set out in the report.  She referred to her local Daytime support centre which provided excellent support for those who were lonely within the communities, providing a hot meal and a chance to come together.  She also praised the Farcycles scheme which carried out work with Children and the elderely.

RESOLVED: to:

(a)       approve the recommendations, as set out under 28 (a-b);

(b)       approve the recommendation to transfer £40,138 from the Innovation Fund 2020/21 to the Sustainability Fund 2020/21, to cover the extra funding awarded, as set out under 28(c);

(c)        to carry forward the remaining balance of £39,430 from the Innovation Fund 2020/21 to the Innovation Fund 2021/22, as set out under 28 (d).