Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Corporate Director of Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, and to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on the proposed decisions on charging policies for adult care and support, deferred payments and temporary financial assistance.

RESOLVED that the decisions proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, that:-

a)     the County Council exercise its power under Section 14 of the Care Act 2014 to charge, from 1 April 2015, for the same services for which it currently charges, as at 31 March 2014 (decision number 14/00135); and

b)     the County Council adopt, from 1 April 2015, both the mandatory and discretionary elements of the proposed Deferred Payments scheme (as set out in Sections 34 and 35 of the Care Act 2014), and the current Temporary Financial Assistance scheme, and for new clients on 31 March 2015 (decision number 14/00136),

be endorsed.