Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and Corporate Director for Social Care, Health & Wellbeing that provides information on the consultation on the Home Support Fund Policy and makes recommendations for the policy to be unified for both Adults and Children.

Ms S Horseman, Assistant Director - Transformation, and Ms R Henn-Macrae, County Manager – Disabled Children, were in attendance for this item.

1.            Ms Horseman introduced the report and summarised the key changes. In response to a question, Ms Henn-Macrae explained that the aim of the changes was to make the fund more accessible to all. She reassured Members, however, that clients who were able to fund their own services would not be able to access local authority assistance without regard to their income. People with their own funds would be expected to explore for themselves all available independent funding options before resorting to the County Council for support.

2.            The Cabinet Member, Mr Gibbens, thanked Members for their interest in the subject and said he would take account of the points raised when taking the decision. 

3.            RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to agree the revised Home Support Fund Policy, be endorsed.