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 deliver ICES as an integrated service, jointly-funded by the County Council and NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), from 1 December 2015.

(1)       Mrs Tidmarsh (Director of Older People and Physical Disability) introduced the report which asked the Cabinet Committee to consider and either endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on a proposed decision to enter into a Section 75 agreement for an Integrated Community Equipment Service with clinical commissioning groups and to delegate authority to officers to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements to put the service in place.  She said that the proposed decision was in line with the objective of becoming a commissioning council and would provide an integrated service that was fit for purpose.

(2)       In response to questions and comments, she said that the provider would be incentivised to re-cycle and reuse equipment and the arrangements for returning equipment would be made clear to users when it was provided.

(3)       Mr Gibbens (Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health) said that the proposed agreement would cover the provision of equipment across Adult Social Care, Specialist Children’s Services and the Education and Young People’s Services Directorate.

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

(a)       the Integrated Community Equipment Service be delivered as an integrated service from 1 December 2015, jointly funded by Kent County Council and NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and delivered by a preferred bidder identified, as a result of a competitive tendering exercise; and

(b)       authority be delegated to the Corporate Director for Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, or other nominated officer, responsibility to enter all necessary contractual arrangements to formalise the joint funding arrangements. These will include, but not be limited, to:

(i)         the signing and affixing of the Council seal to a  section 75 agreement between Kent County Council  and health partners;

(ii)        the advertisement and management of a competitive tendering exercise and the award of contract to the preferred bidder, consulting the Cabinet Member as required by the Council’s scheme of financial delegation

be endorsed.