Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Corporate Resources and Director of Adults' Health and Care prior to the decision of the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health.

The Director of Adults’ Health and Care and a representative of the Director of Corporate Resources attended before the Committee in order to present the revenue budget for Adult Social Care for 2019/20 (see report and presentation, Item 9 in the Minute Book).

A summary was provided of the latest position regarding the Transformation to 2019 savings programme. It was noted that in some cases, delivery of savings would be later than March 2019, and provision had been made in the 2019/20 budget proposals to smooth the budget position until they could be achieved. The Adult’s Health and Care Department were required to remove £55.9m from their budget for 2019/20 under the agreed transformation programme, and the budget reports being considered contained no new savings proposals. This equated to 19% of the overall budget for the department; each department was expected to make the same % reductions under the agreed budget strategy. Provision had been made corporately to reflect pressures arising from demand increase.  

RESOLVED:

That the Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee support the recommendations being proposed to the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in section 1 of the report.