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 decision to approve the proposed increase to the rates payable and charges levied and the introduction of the deferred payment scheme.

Miss M Goldsmith, Directorate Business Partner – Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, was in attendance for this item.

(1)       Miss Goldsmith introduced the report which set out the proposed rates and charges for Adult Social Care Services for the forthcoming financial year, including proposed changes to the social care policy and asked the Cabinet Committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on the proposed decision.

(2)       In response to comments and questions Miss Goldsmith and Mrs Tidmarsh said that:

(a)       Financial support from the Council for residential care was means tested and re-assessed every year;

(b)       Where one partner was in care, the income of the other was not taken into account; and

(c)        Under the Deferred Payments Scheme interest was applied to the debt as it accrued.

(3)       RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health to

(a)       Approve the proposed increase to the rates payable and charges levied for adult services in 2015/16

(b)       Approve the introduction of the Deferred Payment Scheme as detailed in paragraphs 2.8-2.9 of the report; and

(c)        Agree that the Corporate Director of Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, or other suitable delegated officer, undertake the necessary actions to implement this decision

be endorsed.