Issue - items at meetings - FP887 Disabled Facilities Grant Funding and Use of Better Care Fund

Issue - meetings

FP887 Disabled Facilities Grant Funding and Use of Better Care Fund

Meeting: 06/11/2018 - Cabinet (Item 67)

67 Disabled Facilities Grant Funding and Use of Better Care Fund (Forward Plan Reference FP887) pdf icon PDF 33 KB

Recommendation from the meeting of the Cabinet Housing Panel on 25 October 2018 on funding the modernisation programme of Council owned sheltered housing.

Additional documents:

Decision:

The use of the set aside capital receipts of £672,000 towards funding the modernisation programme of council owned sheltered housing was agreed to be incorporated into the 2019/20 budget process.

Minutes:

Recommendation from the meeting of the Cabinet Housing Panel on 25 October 2018 on funding the modernisation programme of Council owned sheltered housing (Minute 41 refers).

 

(1)        The Decision Taken

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the use of the set aside capital receipts of £672,000 towards funding the modernisation programme of Council owned sheltered housing be agreed to be incorporated into the 2019/20 budget process.

 

(2)        Reasons for the Decision

 

The Better Care Fund was an integrated budget which provided a mechanism for joint health and social care, planning and commissioning, bringing together ring fenced budgets from Clinical Commissioning Groups allocations, the Disabled Facilities Grant and funding paid direct to local government for adult social care services.

 

The money was ring fenced for the purpose of providing adaptations or other enablement which improved independence in the home and it was a legitimate use of the fund to be directed to capital projects, such as the sheltered housing improvement project, where the object was to improve health outcomes and maintain independence.