The Cabinet has considered a report providing background and context information relating to the Integrated Care Systems (ICS), including the opportunities for Stockport, the Greater Manchester ICS Model, Stockport’s transition work and the emerging Stockport integrated health and care model and has then:-
(1) Approved and endorsed the recommendations proposed by the People and Communities Subgroup (Appendix 1).
(2) Agreed that the Council vary (prior to 1 July 2022) the existing Section 75 agreement between the CCG and SMBC to pool only the Better Care Fund (BCF), Improved Better Care Fund (iBCF) and Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in 2022/22 which is the “minimum legal requirement”.
(3) Agreed that the Council enter into a MoU to formally document resources and funding contributions transacted between the CCG and SMBC which are pooled under the existing Section 75 agreement but will not be pooled if only BCF, iBCF and DFG resources are pooled.
(4) Agreed that a Section 75 Committee be established to sit within, alongside or outside (to be confirmed) the Locality Board in order to administer and be the decision-making body for the Section 75 agreement from 1 July 2022. This committee could take the form of the existing Health and Care Integrated Commissioning Board (HCICB) subject to arrangements being put in place to amend the name of the committee, its membership (only noting the necessary change that any Members representing the CCG will become Members representing the ICS) and its terms of reference.
(5) Agreed that the Locality Board jointly considers aligned budgets as well as the Section 75 Pooled Budgets.
(6) Delegated authority to the Deputy Chief Executive and/or the Director of Strategy and the Strategic Head of Service (Legal and Democratic Governance) to do such things as are necessary or incidental to the implementation of the above recommendations.