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Adult Social Care Winter Funding 2018
Meeting: 12/12/2018 - Executive (Item 110)
110 Adult Social Care Winter Funding 2018 PDF 322 KB
The report of the City Treasurer is enclosed.
Additional documents:
- Adult Social Care Winter Funding 2018 Appendix, item 110 PDF 182 KB
- Webcast for Adult Social Care Winter Funding 2018
Minutes:
In October 2018 the Department of Health and Social Care had announced £240m of additional funding for councils to spend on adult social care services to help councils alleviate winter pressures on the NHS. Councils were to use the extra money to help patients be more quickly discharged from hospital to their homes, so as to free up hospital beds across England. The funding was intended to enable further reductions in the number of patients that are medically ready to leave hospital but are delayed because they are waiting for adult social care services to be arranged for them at home. The allocation of that money to the City Council was to be £2.67m, but it was not to recur in future years.
A report submitted by the Director of Adult Services set out proposals for the use of that money. The report explained that the proposals had been aligned with other health and social care funding sources and had been developed jointly with partners across the health and social care system. This integrated approach therefore aligned the use of the additional grant with other health funding arising from an underspend on community health services. The inclusion of that underspend had been agreed with the Executive of the Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) and the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT). It is also intended that health funding for primary care resilience would be included in due course.
The proposals for the use of the grant were:
|
2018/19 £’m |
2019/20 £’m |
Total £’m |
Priority Discharge programme |
0.675 |
|
0.675 |
Mental Health bed bureau |
0.037 |
0.018 |
0.055 |
Mental Health housing support workers |
0.024 |
0.012 |
0.036 |
Mental Health DTOC team |
0.044 |
0.022 |
0.066 |
Homecare bridging capacity |
0.144 |
|
0.144 |
Homecare transitional arrangements |
0.169 |
0.085 |
0.254 |
Bed based transitional care |
0.063 |
|
0.063 |
Care home support (North) |
0.037 |
|
0.037 |
Care home support (South) |
0.039 |
|
0.039 |
Reablement |
0.205 |
0.052 |
0.257 |
Complex reablement |
0.206 |
0.102 |
0.308 |
Crisis clean |
0.023 |
0.012 |
0.035 |
Social/PAT Capacity |
0.257 |
0.128 |
0.385 |
Advocacy |
0.025 |
|
0.025 |
Neighbourhood apartments |
0.051 |
0.059 |
0.110 |
Homelessness |
0.107 |
0.070 |
0.177 |
Total Funding |
2.106 |
0.560 |
2.666 |
The details of each of the main areas of proposed expenditure were described in the report. Appended to the report was a schedule of the proposed uses of the £0.685m of other health funding that was also being deployed to this area of work.
Set out within the details of a number of the expenditure proposals was the intention to increase the number of people deployed to the various areas of work. It was explained that whist there would be a requirement to use some agency staff where that proved necessary, it was preferred for these people to be taken on as permanent additions to the Council’s staffing; where that was financially feasible noting that this Adult Social Care Winter Funding was non-recurring. Council managers would have the appropriate delegated authorities to allow recruitment of permanent staff and agency workers to proceed as necessary.
Decisions
1. To approve the proposals for the use of the funding as ... view the full minutes text for item 110