Issue details
Personal Budgets: Review of Policy Framework & Resource Allocation (Progress Report)
The report summarises work undertaken to review and revise the Personal Budgets policy framework and Resource Allocation System (RAS) currently used to deliver social care services in Bath & North East Somerset.
This review and revision is necessary in order to:
· Achieve financial sustainability and meet the Council’s efficiency targets for adult social care;
· Achieve the central Government target to deliver PBs to 100% of all adult social care users by April 2013;
· Address a range of equalities issues which have been identified in the current social care system.
A project group was established to assess the benefits of adopting the National RAS in Bath & North East Somerset. This is a tool commissioned by the Department of Health, currently in use by the majority of local authorities as the primary mechanism for allocating funding to meet the social care needs of individual service users.
Decision type: Key
Decision status: Approved
Decision Type: Key Decision;
Lead member: Simon Allen, Cabinet Member for Wellbeing
Lead director: Ashley Ayre
Contact: Sarah Shatwell, Commissioning Manager for Social Care Transformation Email: Sarah_Shattwell@bathnes.gov.uk Tel: 01225 477162.
Consultation process
23-Jul-12
Consultees
PDS St SU LR CIG SP PSB CX Mon 151
EFP Reference: E2461
Decisions
Agenda items
- 10/10/2012 - Cabinet Personal Budgets: Review of Policy Framework & Resource Allocation (Progress Report) 10/10/2012
Documents
- Wellbeing PDS Panel Report, 16th March 2012: Personal Budgets Review of Policy Framewrok & Resource Allocation System