Issue - meetings

Better Care Fund

Meeting: 09/04/2019 - Cabinet (Item 6)

Additional documents:

Appendix A, item 6 PDF 2 MB

Minutes:

Background:

This report presented an update on Medway’s Better Care Fund (BCF) plan for 2019-2020. The BCF in Medway was a joint plan between NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Medway Council with Medway NHS Foundation Trust as a key stakeholder. A pooled budget was administered in accordance with a Section 75 agreement between the CCG and the Council.

A BCF event held in March 2019 had confirmed that the period 2019/20 was viewed as a transition year ahead of a new spending period. The publication of guidance was expected shortly and requirements would be collected via a single template with a reduced, targeted, narrative input rather than a separate narrative plan.

There would be a single stage assurance process in 2019/20. The Cabinet was requested to agree an extension to the existing BCF Plan and S75 arrangements to cover the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 as set out in Appendix A to the report.

Decision number:	Decision:
50/2019	The Cabinet agreed an extension of the existing Better Care Fund Plan and S75 arrangements to cover the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.
51/2019	The Cabinet agreed to delegate authority for the development and delivery of Medway’s Better Care Fund programme to the Director of People - Children and Adults Services, in consultation with the Medway NHS Clinical Commissioning Group Deputy Managing Director, Chief Legal Officer and the Portfolio Holder for Adults’ Services.

Reasons:

The extension of the existing BCF Plan and S75 arrangements to cover the period from 1 April 2019 to 1 March 2020 will enable the arrangements and services that sit within the Better Care Fund to be dealt with as seamlessly as possible.