Issue - meetings

Councillor N Hoy introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, seeking Cabinet endorsement of an Officer Decision to administer a one-off grant to registered domiciliary care providers in the private, voluntary and independent markets in Derbyshire to pay a retention payment to workers remaining employed by their organisation through the winter months.

RESOLVED to:

1)     Note the challenging position of Adult Social Care regarding sufficiency in the homecare market;

2)     Note the receipt of the funding provided by Derby City and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group and support the use of this to fund retention payments to homecare workers in Derbyshire’s Private, Voluntary, and Independent sector; and

3)     Note and support the decision made by the Executive Director for Adult Social Care and Health, to make retention payments to homecare workers employed in the Private, Voluntary, and Independent sector.