Issue - meetings

Background:

This report gave Cabinet an overview of the consultation response to the proposed Fair and Affordable Cost of Care Policy for Adult Social Care. This proposed policy would introduce a maximum expenditure limit for non-residential care and support and had been agreed by the Cabinet on 8 March 2016 for consultation.

In addition to this, the report highlighted that a Diversity Impact Assessment, attached at Appendix 2 to the report, had been carried out which indicated that the proposed policy was likely to have an adverse impact on a range of Service Users.

Following public consultation the report recommended that proceeding with the proposed policy would not be in the best interests of Medway Service Users or the Council.

Reasons:

That while the response received from the user survey findings was mixed, on reflection, it had been recognised that the proposed policy may not result in the best possible outcomes for Service Users.

Other Local Authorities that had already introduced the policy had fed-back that they were not seeing the calculated savings due to the statutory requirement to meet eligible care needs.