Decision details

The Enhance Programme 2023/2024

Reference: D56215

Decision Maker: Director of Adults and Health

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Brief Description

The Enhance Programme is designed to support safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and Leeds Community Healthcare’s (LCHT) neighbourhood teams by providing grant funding to third sector organisations for increased support capacity and enable closer working with the neighbourhood teams.

Leeds Older People Forum (LOPF) will administer the grant programme to allocate the funding to successful third sector organisations.

The decisions required are:

·  LCC extends for 12 months from 1st April the existing NHS Act Section 256 agreement with LCHT to receive £800,000 for the 23/24 grant programme

·  LCC enters into a new grant agreement with LOPF to facilitate the grant programme (for a total of £898,000) for 12 months from 1st April 2023 with an option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months subject to funding still being available. (Overall value should the extension be taken £2,694,000).

Impact On Wards

The Enhance Programme aims to improve outcomes for people living in all wards of the city (it is a city-wide scheme)

Financial and procurement implications

This grant programme is being funded via £800,000 provided by LCHT and £98,000 from an allocation of funding given to Leeds City Council by Central Government’s Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government for “Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) Support.

Partnership working

This proposal has been developed through partnership working with LCHT and LOPF.

 

Decision:

The Interim Director of Adults and Health agreed to:

Extend the existing NHS Act Section 256 agreement for 12 months from 1st April 23 to the transfer the £800,000 funding from Leeds Community Healthcare Trust to Leeds City Council

That LCC will contibutr the sum of £98,000 to the Enhance programme using funding received through the Health Partnerships Team from the Department of Communities and Local Government for “Clinically Extremely Vulnerable Support” as part of the Covid-19 response.

Awarded the grant agreement of £898,000 to Leeds Older People’s Forum who will administrate and distribute the funding to third sector organisations who currently deliver the Enhance Programme. The grant agreement will commence from 1st April 2023 for 12 months with an option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months subject to funding still being available. (Overall value should the extension be taken £2,694,000).

Officers from Adults & Health Integrated Commissioning Team will work with colleagues from Procurement & Commercial Services to implement the decision.

 

Reason Key: Financial Impact>£500K;

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Other reasons / organisations consulted

Executive Member briefing.

Consultees

The Executive Member for Adult Social Care, Children’s Social Care and Health Partnerships.

Contact: Kate Daly, Commissioning and Contracts Officer 0113 3786027 Email: kate.daly@leeds.gov.uk.

Publication date: 30/03/2023

Date of decision: 11/04/2023

Effective from: 19/04/2023

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