The Head of Integrated Services presented the report of the Director of Care and Health which provided a summary of the proposed content of the Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan for 2023/25. It described how the plan would achieve the Government’s priorities for 2023/25 and support the ambitions of the Healthy Wirral Plan. It set out the detail of the budget areas to be pooled in 2023/24 as part of the mandatory Section 75 agreement with the Integrated Care Board.

Members noted that there would be engagement with the Board over the developing plans and they discussed aspects of the focus on neighbourhoods, such as leadership, boundaries, funding and links with other Plans.

Resolved: That

1.   the content of the BCF Plan for 2023/25 (the BCF 2023/25 Plan was approved by the NHSE in August) be approved and validated.

2.   the Board be assured that the plan will achieve the government’s priorities for 2023/25 and support the ambitions of the Healthy Wirral Plan

3.   the detail of the budget areas to be pooled in 2023/24 as part of the mandatory Section 75 agreement with the Integrated Care Board be noted.