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 comment on and either endorse or make a recommendation to the Cabinet Member on the proposed decision to enter into a Section 75 agreement with the seven Kent Clinical Commissioning Groups which will agree arrangements for integrated commissioning for adults with a learning disability.

Sue Gratton (Project Manager – Integrated Commissioning for Learning Disability) was in attendance for this item.

(1)       Penny Southern (Director of Disabled Children, Adults Learning Disability and Mental Health) introduced the report which described the proposed integrated commissioning arrangement for Adult Learning Disability between Kent County Council and the clinical commissioning groups which, if approved in January 2016, would become operational from 1 April 2016.   The report also asked the committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health on a proposed decision to enter into a Section 75 agreement with the seven clinical commissioning groups in Kent.

(2)       Ms Southern tabled a diagram setting out the current arrangements to deliver integrated community learning disability teams.  Ms Gratton explained the current agreements and said that a more formal arrangement was a logical progression and would ensure a consistent approach across Kent.

(3)       In response to questions, Mr Lobban (Director of Commissioning) said that the proposed arrangement of having two NHS staff within the commissioning teams would make the commissioning and service more sustainable. He also confirmed that Newton Europe was not involved in this particular commissioning process.

(4)       RESOLVED that:

(a)       The proposed Cabinet Member decision to enter into a Section 75 agreement with the seven Kent CCGs, which would agree arrangements for integrated commissioning for adults with a learning disability, be endorsed;

(b)       The delegation of authority by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health to the Corporate Director for Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, or other nominated officer, to arrange the sealing of the contract, be endorsed.