Issue - meetings

To receive a report which sets out the proposed rates and charges for Adult Social Care Services for the forthcoming financial year.

(Michelle Goldsmith (Finance Business Partner – Social Care, Health and Wellbeing) and Anne Tidmarsh (Director of Older People and Physical Disability) were in attendance for this item)

1.    Michelle Goldsmith introduced the report which set out the proposed rates and charges for Adult Social Care Services for the forthcoming financial year.

a)    In response to a question, Michelle Goldsmith said that the consultation rates within the report related to what Kent would charge other local authorities when taking on their work. She said that the consultation rates were what the County Council charged overall, and were not a specific Social Care charge.

b)    In response to a question, Anu Singh (Corporate Director of Adult Social Care and Health) confirmed that the figures in the report were in line with the figures used within other local authorities and said that the scheme was not an income-raising scheme.

c)    In response to a question relating to consultation work, Anne Tidmarsh said that income was not generated for assessments that were carried out within Adult Social Care.

2.    RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, to

a)    approve the proposed changes to the rates payable and charges levied for adult social care services in 2018-19, as detailed in Sections 2.5a, 2.5b, 2.9b,2.10, 2.13, 2.16a, 2.16b, 2.18, 2.20, 2.21, 2.24 and 3 of the report; and

b)    delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Adult Social Care and Health, or other nominated officer, to undertake the necessary actions to implement the decision,

be endorsed.