Decision details

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To spend £23 894 of the funding provided by North Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and ESNEFT to Tendring District Council for the purposes of addressing inequalities.
Up to £23,894 is proposed to be used for a post with Peabody for a Hospital Discharge Officer to work with patients of the hospital in Colchester who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Essex County Council have been funding the project for two years which is delivered by Peabody. The success of this role demonstrated the need for its extension until September 2024.

Decision:

To spend £23 894 of the funding provided by North Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and ESNEFT to Tendring District Council for the purposes of addressing inequalities by contributing funding to support the continuation of a Hospital Discharge Officer with Peabody.

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 - to use £23 894 to support a post with Peabody for a Hospital Discharge Officer who will be in post until September 2024.
Option 2 - to not allocate the funding.
Option 3 -

Publication date: 28/11/2023

Date of decision: 28/11/2023