Agenda and draft minutes

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Cllr Gina Adamou declared a personal interest in relation to agenda item 6 by virtue of one of her daughters working in Haringey as a social worker.

Cllr Gina Adamou declared a personal interest in relation to agenda item 6 by virtue of one of her daughters being a teacher.

Cllr Gina Adamou declared a personal interest in relation to agenda item 6 by virtue of her son working in the teaching and education sector.

Cllr Pippa Connor declared a personal interest in relation to agenda item 6 by virtue of her sister working as a GP in Tottenham.

Cllr Pippa Connor declared a personal interest in relation to agenda item 6 by virtue of being a member of the Royal College of Nursing.

There were no disclosable pecuniary interests or prejudicial interests declared by members.

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 29 of the Council’s Constitution.

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This report provides an overview of the financial performance of the services within Priority 2 (Enable adults to live healthy, long and fulfilling lives) as at the end of quarter 2, 2017/18.

Beverley Tarka, Director of Adult Social Services, introduced the report and Paul Deeney, Business Partner, provided further information via presentation.

Mr Deeney commenced his presentation by providing an overview of the pressures and gaps facing Priority 2 (P2) in financial terms. It was noted this included all services managed by the Director of Adult Social Services and those adults-focused services managed by the Director of Public Health and the Assistant Director for Commissioning.

Information was then provided on a range of issues, set out on pages 1 – 13 of the agenda, including:

-       The Budget Build for P2 for 2017/18, including budget adjustments made during the year.

-       How the MTFS for P2 was being delivered

-       Details on the P2 Budget at Period 6 2017/18

-       Priority 2 savings at Period 6 2017/18  

During the discussion a number of issues were considered in relation to the fact, at the end of Period 6, the Council was projected to overspend by £6.4m in 2017/18. It was noted that the majority of the overspend in the general fund related to demand pressures in frontline services. The following points were noted in relation to the P2 Budget:

-       There was £98.7m forecast against a budget of £95.2m, an adverse movement of £1.9m on Period 5.

-       The £3.5m adverse variance was made up of £3.6m from Adult Social Care and an immaterial favourable variance of £0.1m from Public Health.

-       The in-year forecast had been mitigated through the release of provisions totalling £1.3m.

-       Key pressures for adult social care included the money that was being spent in relation to Osborne Grove and on care packages.

In response to questions, the Panel was informed that the budget pressure relating to Osborne Grove was projected at £1.0m for the following reasons: agency staff costs, loss of client contributions and health income. In terms of care packages the Panel was informed that a budget pressure of £4.3m was apparent due to:

-       Demand for younger clients with learning disability support needs and older clients with physical support needs being currently forecast above initial budget projections.

-       Savings related to re-provisioning costs being less than anticipated for those clients whose needs had previously been met through in-house services.

-       The fact that significant reductions, relating to the cost of care packages and to prevention and diversion, had not yet materialised. It was noted this approach had been anticipated to play an important role in delivering required savings. It was explained that proposals had tended to overstate what could be achieved, due to double-counting of effects across different interventions such as the use of Assistive Technology and Reviews. As a result, the Panel was informed a review would be undertaken to seek alternative ways to mitigate this.   

In response to questions, the Panel was informed that of the savings identified in years 1 and 2 of the MTFS, outlined on page 13 of the agenda, £5.6m was projected to be saved against a total of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 35.