Issue - meetings

The Director of Health and Wellbeing submitted for consideration a proposal to freeze the Resource Allocation System (RAS) scorecard to reflect the Council’s budget setting decisions.

The aim of the RAS, linked to the allocation of personal budgets, was to provide a clear and rational way to calculate how much money it was likely to cost to meet a person’s assessed needs as determined in their support plan.

The RAS had to be revised each year to take account of changes in Social Care budgets and support costs.  Presently the key cost drivers were Direct Payments and the costs of independent sector community based services.  The Council’s inflation provisions for the cost drivers had not been increased, therefore, it was proposed that the RAS scorecard be frozen at 2011/12 levels.

The rates were set out in Appendix 1 of the report submitted.

Resolved:-  That the Resource Allocation System be frozen at 2011/12 prices for the financial year 2012/13.