Report No. 96/2018 was received from the Director for Public Health.

Mr A Walters, Portfolio Holder for Safeguarding – Adults, Public Health, Health Commissioning, Community Safety & Road Safety, introduced the report, the purpose of which was to outline proposals to bring together funding from both the Public Health Grant and the Better Care Fund (BCF) to establish a Healthy Rutland Small Grants Scheme.

Mr Walters noted that the Adults and Health Scrutiny Panel had considered an early report on the scheme in April 2018 and he would welcome any further feedback on the scheme as set out in this report.

During discussion the following points were raised:

      i.         The fixed-term post to support the scheme would be a part-time administrative post and therefore the allocation of £9,000 was considered reasonable;

     ii.         Promotion of the scheme would be key to its success; and

   iii.         A requirement to report back on outcomes would be incorporated into the scheme to ensure that the success of the scheme could be measured and good news stories were publicized.

DECISION

1)    Cabinet APPROVED the use of the Public Health Grant and Better Care Fund programme funding to establish a Healthy Rutland Small Grants Scheme to improve health and wellbeing within local communities.

2)    Cabinet APPROVED the proposed option for managing the awarding of grants under the Healthy Rutland Small Grants Scheme as set out in Section 2 of Report No. 98/2018.

3)    Cabinet APPROVED that the scheme would be administered by Rutland Access Partnership (RAP) on behalf of the Council, and that the Council would provide a proportion of the funding (approximately 9% of the total allocated funding) for RAP to recruit a worker to support communities in applying and making the best use of all the monies.

Reason for decision

1.    The Public Health Grant must be spent improving the health of the population, in line with the conditions set out in the Public Health Grant Agreement.  Any underspend may be ‘clawed back’ by Public Health England.  By establishing a time limited grant scheme, the Council would ensure that the full amount of grant due to Rutland was used to improve the health and well-being of the population.

2.    The use of RAP would provide a cost effective way of administering the scheme.

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Mr G Brown returned to the meeting.

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Mr M Sandys and Mrs Z Chatra left the meeting and did not return.

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