Issue - decisions

Staffordshire Better Care Fund 2022-2024

 

 

20/04/2023 - Staffordshire Better Care Fund 2022-2024

 

“The Better Care Fund continues to enable us to provide joined-up health and social care services, meaning people are supported to remain in their own homes for as long as they are able.

 

Progress over the past year includes a new social care workforce strategy, helping to support the recruitment and retention of home care staff by offsetting some cost pressures, improving the quality of care on offer in our care homes, and supporting home-first discharge to improve outcomes for people leaving hospital.

 

We will continue to use the Better Care Fund to improve and integrate social care and NHS services for our residents, and to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our county.”

 

Julia Jessel, Cabinet Member for Health and Care

 

Reasons for the Decision – To consider an update on the Staffordshire Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan for 2022-23 together with a summary of arrangements for development of the BCF Plan for 2023-24.

 

Decision – (a) That the progress of the Staffordshire Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan for 2022/23 and the associated expenditure be noted.

 

(b) That the allocation to Staffordshire County Council (SCC) and the Integrated Care Board (ICB) by HM Government of the Adult Social Care (ASC) Discharge Grant to the sum of £6,368,757 in 2022/23, and the subsequent inclusion of this within the BCF Section 75 agreement, be noted.

 

(c)        That it be noted that the Council have transferred the 2022/23 Disabled Facilities Grant to the District and Borough Councils as required by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (now the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities).

 

(d)       That it be noted that the Health and Well-being Board (HWB) has delegated final approval of the Staffordshire BCF Plan for 2023-24 to the Health and Wellbeing Board Chairs, including the Cabinet Member for Health and Care.

 

(e) That authority be delegated to the Director of Health and Care to enter into legal agreements for 2023/24 and 2024/25 under Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 in order to implement the respective BCF Plans.