Issue - meetings

Cabinet considered a report setting out proposals to reduce the county council's reliance on long-term residential care placements by proposing arrangements for delivering the key ambitions of the Housing with Care and Support Strategy in relation to extra care.

Resolved: That

i.  The overall approach to the implementation of the county council's Housing with Care and Support Strategy in relation to extra care housing namely to adopt an approach to the funding of extra care based on Homes England grant and borrowing rather than a lease based/institutional funding model, and any contribution of land or grant by Lancashire County Council to be funding of last resort and only applied in order to make a strategically important scheme financially viable, be approved; and

ii.  Work with Eric Wright Group's Health and Care Division as Lancashire  Regeneration Property Partner, to assist in engagement with the wider health sector on delivery of the strategy's aims and specifically bring forward developments in areas of demand where there is no activity, be approved.