To consider a report of the Executive Members for Children’s Services and for Adult Social Services and Community Wellbeing.

1. That the establishment of a new S75 agreement between Trafford Council and Pennine Care Foundation Trust be agreed from 1^st April 2016 to 31^st March 2018 (with an option to extend the agreement for a further year) on terms to be agreed by the Director of Legal and Democratic Services in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and the Interim Corporate Director of Children, Families and Well-being.

2. That the delegation to sign the agreement on behalf of the Council is conferred on the Chief Executive.

The Executive Members for Children’s Services and for Adult Social Services and Community Wellbeing submitted a report which outlined the arrangements to establish an all age community health and social care service in Trafford, which built on the existing partnership between Trafford Council and Pennine Care Foundation Trust.

            RESOLVED -

(1)        That the establishment of a new S75 agreement between Trafford Council and Pennine Care Foundation Trust be agreed from 1^st April 2016 to 31^st March 2018 (with an option to extend the agreement for a further year) on terms to be agreed by the Director of Legal and Democratic Services in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and the Interim Corporate Director of Children, Families and Well-being.

(2)        That the delegation to sign the agreement on behalf of the Council is conferred on the Chief Executive.