Decision details

The Cabinet Member for Health and Communities:

1)    Approved the award of £8,000 funding to Chesterfield Links CVS for a 12 month period from 11 March 2024 to provide insight and analysis of the barriers of ethnic minority groups to accessing Substance Use and Recovery Services and raise awareness of this important service provision.

2)    Noted that the grant funding is from the reprofiling of an underspend on the year 2 (2023/24) Supplementary Substance Misuse and Treatment Grant as outlined in the report.

Chesterfield Links CVS, Derbyshire BME Forum can provide the support, engagement and insight with ethnic minority groups through the development of their infrastructure as outlined in the report.

Chesterfield Links CVS meet the criteria for SSMTRG Funding to provide insight and engagement to increase the numbers of individual ethnic minority groups in accessing substance misuse services.

Preferred option – approve reprofiling of the underspend from year two (2) of the SSMTRG funding and provide £8,000 funding to Chesterfield Links CVS

Return the underspend. This is not an acceptable alternative as it indicates to OHID that Derbyshire requires a lower level of funding and disadvantages Derbyshire residents.?

Consider allocating the SSMTRG funding underspend in a different manner: this is not an ideal alternative as the allocation of funding was agreed in collaboration with the different service providers following identification of gaps in service provision and meets the coordination and commissioning requirements that the SSMTRG funding brings.