Decision details

The Director of Economic Development and Planning submitted a report updating Committee on the Adult Social Care Transformation Funding bid submitted for the east of Lancashire, including Ribble Valley, and to agree receipt of the funding and thereafter use of the funding.

Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, Hyndburn, and Ribble Valley had submitted a proposal for funding in 2024 which focused on early intervention and prevention to help remove and reduce the level of inappropriate contacts to adult social care (ASC). The proposal consisted of three elements to:

1.     Increase the number of community connectors in place across the locality

2.     Invest in grant schemes to seek to build and develop befriending services as part of socially inclusive activities to be undertaken in the communities of greatest need

3.     Develop CVS infrastructure to support the management of the process and the reporting of the impact of the schemes

LCC supported the provision of funding for the submitted proposal with the intention that £44k of funding would be distributed to each of the Councils, who would then passport the funding the to CVS for them to administer.

Committee approval was sought to enter into a collaboration agreement with LCC to receive £44,000 to support the delivery of the transformation funding proposals across the east Lancashire for a minimum of 12 months and to enter into a Service Level Agreement with Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Council for Voluntary Service for them to deliver the project on behalf of the Council.

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

1.     Agreed to enter into a collaboration agreement with LCC to receive £44,000 to support the delivery of the transformation funding proposals across the east of Lancashire as set out in draft agreement included with the report.

2.     Agreed to an exemption to the Council’s Procurement Rules in respect of giving the funding received to the Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) on the basis that only one Provider is able to carry out the service.

3.     Agreed to enter into a Service Level Agreement with the Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) for them to deliver the project on behalf of the Council.