Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report setting out proposed guidance in relation to the timescale and process for implementation across the respective statutory, voluntary and community sector organisations.

Proposals were also included for an initial twelve month pilot of the project.

The policy aimed to support local health and social care organisations with a view to reimbursing service users for their involvement and the parameters for this were set out in the report.

In response to a query the Board was advised that the Policy had been based on one already in operation in another Borough and reflected examples cited as best practice.  There had been discussion around the level of payments with the Benefits Agency to ensure that these would not affect individuals payments.

There was a general consensus that the statutory agencies involved would need to look at the proposals in more detail and assess the impact that this would have in terms of cost. It was suggested that benchmarking would be useful in order to provide an informed context. The Chair requested that this information was presented to the Well-Being Chairs Executive prior to the next meeting.

RESOLVED:

1. That the policy be supported in principal.

2. That the Well-Being Chairs Executive should be provide with further information (as set out above).

3. That a further report should be submitted to the Board at its next meeting.