Issue - meetings

The Strategic Director – People, presented the Board with details of a proposal to increase the payments made to Halton’s Adult Placement Service Day Carers and to change the name of the service to ‘Shared Lives Services’.

Halton’s Adult Placement Service provided care for people who had been assessed as requiring support due to age, illness or disability.  It offered adults an alternative and highly flexible form of accommodation and/or care or support using the Adult Placement Carer’s home as a resource and the care was provided by individuals, couple or families in the local community.  Halton had used Adult Placement Carers for almost 20 years and was proud to say that in 2019 they were the regional winners of the Great British Care Awards for Dementia Care.

The report outlined the rationale for the requested increase in payments and the requested change to the name of the service.  In support of these requests and other minor changes, Members were referred to Appendix 1 – the Shared Lives Plus Funding Model; Appendix 2 – comparisons with other local authorities for 2020 day carer payments; and Appendix 3 – Halton Shared Lives Carers monthly breakdown of fees paid for 2019 and the proposed increase for 2020.  It was noted that there would be an increase of £38,871 per annum for the costs of the Service with the increased payment rates, which was still considerably less than the alternative of day care or residential services.

RESOLVED: That the Executive Board

1)    notes the report and accompanying appendices; and

2)    approves the requested payment increase, change of service name, advert for carers and minor changes to the scheme.