REASON FOR THE DECISION Clause Samples

REASON FOR THE DECISION. The Better Care Fund (“BCF”) is a programme spanning both the NHS and local government to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society, placing them at the centre of their care and support, and providing them with ‘wraparound’ fully integrated health and social care, resulting in an improved experience and better quality of life. The Improved Better Care Fund (“IBCF”), and Disabled Facilities Grant are additional elements to the Better Care Fund, which are paid as direct grants to Councils, but must be pooled into the local BCF plan and regulated by a Section 75 Agreement pursuant to partnership arrangements permitted under the NHS Act 2006. The varied Clause 2.3 of the Agreement allows the existing fund transfer arrangement and the related budget and governance arrangement of various schemes to be extended for a further 12 month period by the agreement of Doncaster Council and DCCG through the Better Care Fund Partnership Board. This ODR concerns the BCF, IBCF and Disabled Facilities Grant pooled budgets between DCCG and Doncaster Council for the financial year 2021/22. It is proposed that the Section 75 Agreement be extended for a further 12 months. It is anticipated that the pooled budget will amount to circa £43M with an uplift to be confirmed of which a minimum of £23.9M is the Doncaster Council element as outlined in the 2021/22 to 2023/24 Revenue Budget paper approved by full Council on 1 March 2021 (iBCF page 27, para’s 20-22 and BCF page 32, para 36). Disabled Facilities Grant circa £3.282M is outlined in the Capital Strategy and Capital Programme report approved by full Council on 1 March 2021 (page 24, appendix 1b). NHS England is still yet to confirm the final Better Care Planning Requirements for 21/22, however, the existing policy for 20/21 specifies that a national condition of the funding for the grants identified is that Plans covering all mandatory funding contributions are to be agreed by Health and Wellbeing areas and minimum contributions for CCG and iBCF pooled in a section 75 agreement (an agreement made under section 75 of the NHS Act 2006). The Health and Wellbeing Board approved the 20/21 plan in January 2021. It is therefore necessary to vary and extend the 20/21 Agreement in advance of the final Better Care Planning Requirements being known in order to maintain eligibility to receive the funding. The varied and extended agreement will contain provisions allowing for the further variation of the Agreemen...

REASON FOR THE DECISION. A party in deciding whether to give its consent or express its satisfaction to a matter is not obliged to give a reason for its decision unless this document states a reason is to be given.

REASON FOR THE DECISION. The Frenchgate Centre has two walkways that run through the building as detailed below. In recent years the Frenchgate Centre has increasingly been experiencing anti-social behaviour particularly after the stores and Travel Interchange have closed. As a result, the centre is incurring significant costs associated with vandalism, rough sleeping and criminality resulting in increased security presence during night time hours when no public transport is running to or from the interchange. A walkway is a footpath over, through or under a building. The current requirements for the opening times of the walkways are detailed below: Frenchgate Centre. This walkway was formed via a legal agreement between Doncaster Council and the owners of the Frenchgate Centre, which provides that this is route to remain open 24 hours a day, 365days a year. The Council contributes towards the cost of this access via a service charge based on the actual lighting costs, cleaning and maintenance and which is currently set at £ In addition to the various legal agreements the walkways have subsequently become part of the planning conditions as part of the reserved matters. Therefore, the variation of any agreements requires a two-tier approach in securing the necessary variation of planning conditions and termination and variation of legal agreements. In pursuance of securing variations, the Frenchgate Centre owners have recently submitted a planning application to vary these conditions. This application was subject to the usual statutory public consultation process and has now been granted with no objections from any party. The Frenchgate Centre have now made a formal request to the Council acting as Highway Authority to terminate and vary the relevant walkway agreements. The Frenchgate Centre propose to close the South Mall route 30 minutes after stores close and to reopen this route 30 minute prior to stores open in the morning. This mirrors the condition in the recently varied planning permission. Regarding the North Mall they seek to align the opening times to published public transport timetables connected to the railway station and the travel interchange. Again, this mirrors the condition in the recently varied planning permission which also requires the Frenchgate Centre to adjust the opening times accordingly should there be any changes to the published public transport operations from the Railway Station or Interchange. The planning requirement is for the North Mall to open ...

REASON FOR THE DECISION. Ensure best value for minor adaptations works to the homes of disabled people, primarily in the owner occupied and privately rented sectors but also (to a lesser degree) in the public sector through competitive tendering process and economies of scale.

REASON FOR THE DECISION. To ensure the Cabinet Member has an overview of safeguarding performance. DETAILS OF ANY ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS

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