Issue - meetings
Better Care Fund Arrangements 2016/2017
Meeting: 10/05/2016 - Cabinet (Item 5)
5 Better Care Fund: Update and Section 75 Budget Arrangements 
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Minutes:
Background:
This report provided an update on the arrangements for the approval of the Better Care Fund (BCF), which the Council was required to establish in accordance with Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2006. Section 75 of the Act allowed Local Authorities and NHS bodies to enter into partnership arrangements to provide a more streamlined service and to pool resources, if such arrangements were likely to lead to an improvement in the way their functions were exercised. For Medway, it was noted that the BCF for 2016/17 would have a value of £18.255m.
During discussion, clarification was sought on the references to differing financial years in paragraphs 6.2 and 7.4 of the report with a request that this be provided outside the meeting.
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Decision: |
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77/2016 |
The Cabinet agreed to delegate authority to the Director of Children and Adults Services, in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer and the Portfolio Holder for Adult Services, after it has been considered and endorsed by the Health and Wellbeing Board, to produce and finalise the Section 75 Pooled Fund for the Better Care Fund for 2016/17 with the Accountable Officer of the Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). |
Reasons:
Delegating authority to the Director of Children and Adults Services, in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer and the Portfolio Holder for Adult Services, allows more time to establish the pooled fund agreement within the foreshortened timeframes within which NHS England operates.
Regular reports on the progress of the BCF programme will be provided but this arrangement will sit better with existing governance arrangements.