Issue - meetings

Recommendations

i)               That Executive approves the refreshed Charging Policies for Adult Residential and Community-Based Care while noting that no changes have been proposed which change how or what people are charged.

ii)              Executive agrees that approval of any future minor changes to these Policies (not having any impact on what or how people are charged), or changes otherwise required by legislation, is delegated to the Corporate Director – Health and Adult Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Health and Adult Services and the Corporate Director – Resources.

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director Health and Adult Services presenting refreshed and updated Charging Policies for Adult Social Care for approval.

The Executive Member for Health and Adult Services, Councillor Michael Harrison, introduced the report advising that it was good practice for such policies to be reviewed and updated from time to time.  None of the changes had any impact on what or how people were charged.

Resolved (unanimously) – that

i)              the refreshed Charging Policies for Adult Residential and Community-Based Care be approved while noting that no changes have been proposed which change how or what people are charged.

ii)             approval of any future minor changes to these Policies (not having any impact on what or how people are charged), or changes otherwise required by legislation, is delegated to the Corporate Director Health and Adult Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Health and Adult Services and the Corporate Director Resources.

Reasons for Recommendations

The recommendations seek to refresh the current Policies, while not making any changes in how people are charged for services and to allow the Corporate Director Health and Adult Services (in consultation with the Executive Member for Health and Adult Services and the Corporate Director Resources) to make any future minor changes which have no impact on how and what people are charged for care.