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Meeting: 16/01/2013 - Mayor and Cabinet (Item 444)

Public Health staffing

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Minutes:

Having considered a confidential officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet Member for Community Services & Older People, Councillor Chris Best, the Mayor:

 

RESOLVED

That

 

 

(i) formal announcement of Lewisham’s public health allocation was not made alongside the Local Government Finance settlement as had been previously indicated by DH and that the funding allocation will now be announced in the New Year, and is expected by 11 January 2013.

 

 

(ii) the contingency actions outlined were there to be a shortfall in funding in excess of that previously notified to Mayor and Cabinet on 24 October 2012, be noted;

 

 

(iii) the legal framework which governs the arrangements for transferring Public Health staff from Lewisham PCT to the Council be noted;

 

 

(iv) the Director of Public Health has advised the NHS and the Council that in his professional opinion all 23 staff spend 100% of their time on the functions which will transfer to the Council and therefore are to be listed on the Transfer Scheme; and

 

 

(v) the staff in the posts listed transfer to the Council on 1 April 2013.