Decision Maker: Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: November 6, 2024

Purpose:

Content: RESOLVED that:   1. That the Committee urgently meets with local MPs and relevant Cabinet Members to discuss the findings of the inquiry.   2. That, through the Leader, the Council lobbies MPs, the Minister for Health, Chancellor and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care based on the outcomes of the findings of the inquiry for fairer funding and the main streaming of long term grants.   3. That the Committee writes to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care through the Chair of the Care and Wellbeing Funding Task and Finish Group and Chairman of the Committee, based on the findings of the inquiry.   4. Additional funding was required from central government to reflect the additional burden of National Insurance increases on the care market and this point to be made in the Committee’s meeting with MPs and Cabient Members; as part of the Leader’s lobbying to MPs, the Minister for Health, Chancellor and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care; and, in the Committee’s letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (as described in recommendations 1-3).