Issue - meetings

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 24 July 2014.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 24 July 2014 were approved as a true and correct record and signed by the Chairman.

Councillor Marcus Franks asked Rachael Wardell for a brief update on the Better Care Fund (BCF),  which had been the subject of an extraordinary meeting which had taken place the previous week.

Rachael Wardell reported that Health and Wellbeing Board had agreed at the extraordinary meeting that the BCF be approved and submitted to the Department of Health (DH) subject the DH confirming by the 31 October 2014, that the full cost of funding the new minimum eligibility criteria under the Care Act would be met centrally.

Wokingham had submitted their BCF plan with a caveat aligned to that submitted by West Berkshire. West Berkshire and Wokinghman had written a joint letter to the DH. Concerns had also been submitted to respective Members of Parliament so that they could lobby the DH on behalf of both West Berkshire and Wokinghman.