Intermediate Care Fund: Additional Allocation September 2016 / /
Expression of Interest Form
About this form
Please answer all the questions on the form
Please email a copy of your application to
Deadline
Your form must reach us by Friday 14th October, 2016. We will not be able to accept any expressions of interest after this date.
Questions
If you have any questions or queries regarding the funding or the process, then please contact either Nicola Trotman ( or 01792 636946) OR Kate Kinsman ( or 01792 636680) in the Western Bay Programme Office.
Western Bay Health and Social Care Programme
The Western Bay Health & Social Care Programme has been set up to develop a regional response:
- To the ever increasing needs of the population, in particular older people who are living longer but with higher levels of physical and mental frailty
- To address the significant financial challenges facing the three local authorities and the ABMU Health Board
- With a view to optimise collective effort to deliver high value sustainable Health and Social Services.
Our vision is to provide high quality services that protect children and adults from harm, promote independence and deliver positive outcomes for people in Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea.
To achieve this, the ABMU Health Board and the Local Authorities of Bridgend CBC, Neath Port Talbot CBC and City & County of Swansea will work together through the Western Bay Health and Social Care Collaborative, with third and independent sector partners. The primary purpose of the Collaborative is to provide a strategic mechanism for co-ordinating a programme of change in a suite of projects that partners have identified as a common concern.
Western Bay Intermediate Care Funding
Welsh Government has allocated additional Intermediate CareRevenue Funding of £2.236mfor to the Western Bay Programme. This revenue funding must be spent by 31st March, 2017. Western Bay partners are invited to apply for the funding.
Intermediate Care Fund: Additional Allocation
Funding should be used to support the requirements contained in section 15 of the Act (included in appendix 1) to achieve various purposes, including preventing or delaying the development of care and support needs.
The objectives of the funding are to provide preventative services specifically in relation to the following current core areas of ICF:
- Continued funding to support older people to maintain their independence;
- The development of integrated service for people with learning disabilities; and
- The development of integrated services for children with complex needs
The proposals should also include how they will meet the following key criteria:
Integration - The Fund aims to encourage integrated working, so schemes should clearly demonstrate the role and contribution of all relevant partners within the region.
Transformational - Schemes should demonstrate a recognisable shift in the way services are delivered or in the ways the collaborating organisations operate. The impact must be on the long term and achieving sustainable integrated services.
New/Additional – The Fund must be used to support new or additional provision of services and ways of working. Schemes must clearly demonstrate the additionality that will be delivered and how this will be measured, particularly within the context of population outcomes.
Deliver benefits - You should clearly highlight the benefits and outcomes for individuals and social care needs, and also highlight how the provision of integrated services will be enhanced or developed within the region. This should include value for money, cost avoidance or savings as appropriate.
Strategic – Your schemes should indicate alignment to the strategic aims of Ministers, including demonstrating sustainability, the wider integration agenda and well-being. They should, for example, demonstrate coherence with the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.
Fairness/Equality - proposals should ensure people with get fair and equal access to good quality health and social care.
Monitoring and evaluation
Evidence will need to be provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of schemes in relation to the Fund’s objectives. You will therefore be required to monitor and evaluate these.
You will need to specify how progress towards objectives and the achievement of outcomes will be assessed. A monitoring template will be provided that you will need to fill in and return on a quarterly basis, within the deadlines specified by Welsh Government. This information is collated and returned to Welsh Government.
Process for Allocating Funds
Expressions of interest will be assessed based on the information contained with the attached form in appendix 2. A prioritisation process will be utilised to assess which scheme/s meet the objectives and criteria for the funding. Please note, if all questions are not answered, there is a risk that your application will be rejected. In order to ensure equity across the region, an approximate split of funding based on the previous formula used for Intermediate Care funding will be applied during the prioritisation. Successful applicants will be notified by Monday 31stOctober, 2016.
If further funding becomes available in the financial year, then applicants may be contacted to see if they still wish to proceed with their scheme within the remaining timescales.
Process for Drawing down Funds if Successful
The process for drawing down the funds if successful will be as follows:
- Monitoring forms submitted to Western Bay Programme Office within the following timescales:
-October to December 2016 - 11th January, 2017
-October to March 2017 - 10th April, 2017
- Western Bay Programme Office review the templates to ensure all relevant information included on the monitoring form and chase up any queries if necessary.
- Western Bay Programme Office notify Project Leads to confirm monitoring form acceptable and give go ahead to invoice ABMU for the amount of expenditure recorded on the monitoring form
- Project Leads / organisations process invoice to send to AMBU, including the following details:
FAO: Paul Gilchrist
Address: ABM University HB, Finance Dept, 1 Talbot Gateway, Seaway Parade, Baglan. SA12 7BR
Description: Include reference number of scheme and title AND ICF 2016/17
- Each organisation to forward supporting financial documentation for all their schemes to , including relevant invoice number, reference number of scheme and title. ABMU Finance check supporting documentation provided for each scheme and then pay invoice
APPENDIX 1
Section 15 of the Act
15 Preventative services
(1)A local authority must provide or arrange for the provision of a range and level of services which it considers will achieve the purposes in subsection (2) in its area.
(2)The purposes are—
(a)contributing towards preventing or delaying the development of people’s needs for care and support;
(b)reducing the needs for care and support of people who have such needs;
(c)promoting the upbringing of children by their families, where that is consistent with the well-being of children;
(d)minimising the effect on disabled people of their disabilities;
(e)contributing towards preventing people from suffering abuse or neglect;
(f)reducing the need for—
(i)proceedings for care or supervision orders under the Children Act 1989,
(ii)criminal proceedings against children,
(iii)any family or other proceedings in relation to children which might lead to them being placed in local authority care, or
(iv)proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court in relation to children;
(g)encouraging children not to commit criminal offences;
(h)avoiding the need for children to be placed in secure accommodation;
(i)enabling people to live their lives as independently as possible.
APPENDIX 2
Funding Application
Name of proposed project / scheme- Please provide outline details and objectives of your proposed project. Please can you ensure that you demonstrate how the scheme will meet the objectives and criteria of the fund, referenced above (page 2 & 3)?
- What added value will the proposal achieve for the service user / citizen? Please indicate how this will be measured?
- Please provide details of your project plan and timeline.
- How will you ensure that the project is delivered and spend committed by the end of March 2017?
- Please provide a financial breakdown of your budget per quarter, including any contingency plans
- Please identify key risks for the overall project and how you intend to manage them
- How will your project be sustained after March 2017?
- What are the key outcomes the project will achieve? How will these be measured?
- Please provide the following contact details:
Project Lead:
Telephone Number:
Email Address:
Organisation:
Deadline for Submission: Friday 14th October.
Email to:
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