Issue - meetings

To consider a report by Councillor Bobby Feeley, Lead Member for Social Care and Children’s Services (copy enclosed) which seeks consideration of a new partnership between the Council and BCU to deliver Adult Mental Health Services.

RESOLVED:- that Cabinet agrees:-

(a)          the current Conwy and Denbighshire Adult Mental Health and Social Care Partnership end on 3^rd July, 2013, and

(b)    Denbighshire remains committed to the model originally developed when creating the Partnership but that this should now be reflected in a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and BCU for the provision of these services.

The Leader presented the report, circulated previously, and explained that Adult Mental Health Services were currently provided by the Conwy and Denbighshire Adult Mental Health Partnership.  The Partnership was due to end in July, 2013 and a Cabinet decision was required to enable a new partnership arrangement to be agreed between the Council and BCU to deliver the same range of services.

He provided a summary of the background to the Partnership which had been created and underpinned by a formal legal agreement under S31 of The Health Act 1999, which later became the S33 Agreement.  The Partnership Agreement provided for agreement on common policies and procedures across the service and a copy of the original report to Cabinet in February, 2005 along with a Cabinet Briefing Paper had been included as Appendix 1 and 2 to the report.

The changes resulting from the creation of BCU and the development of the Clinical Programme Group model had made it increasingly difficult to manage the current partnership alongside arrangements elsewhere within the CPG for mental health services in the rest of BCU’s catchment area.  This along with the requirement to respond to The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 had prompted a review of the current arrangements with respect to the Partnership in Denbighshire.

The Head of Adult and Business Services confirmed that the ending of the current Partnership and creating a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and BCU would not have any impact on service delivery.  A new Memorandum of Understanding would be clear and require BCU to provide information as part of a more timely and regular process.  He informed Members that the standard of service provided within Denbighshire had been extremely high.

RESOLVED:- that Cabinet agrees:-

(a)          the current Conwy and Denbighshire Adult Mental Health and Social Care Partnership end on 3^rd July, 2013, and

(b)    Denbighshire remains committed to the model originally developed when creating the Partnership but that this should now be reflected in a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and BCU for the provision of these services.

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