Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, People, regarding the allocation of additional funding for Adult Social Care.

The Board was advised that additional funding for Councils in England over the next three years had been announced by the Chancellor in the Spring 2017 budget. It was reported that this would help to close the gap in Government funding for Adult Social Care. It would meet the needs of adult social care and reduce the pressures on the NHS.

It was noted that a small number of grant conditions had been applied to ensure that the money was spent on adult social care services and supported the improvement in performance at the health and social care interface. Members were advised that the grant would be pooled into the Better Care Fund pooled budget once agreement had been reached with the Health and Wellbeing Board.

RESOLVED: That Executive Board agree to the recommendations as detailed in Section 4.0 of the report.