Aberdeen City Council’s budget approval of an additional £9.536 million in funding for the city’s Health and Social Care partnership was welcomed at today’s (Tuesday 18 March) meeting of the Integration Joint Board (IJB),
The additional funding agreed at the Council’s Budget meeting on 5 March brings the local authority’s investment in the IJB to £140m for the coming 12 months and helps the Partnership balance its 2025/26 budget, deliver frontline services and transform its operations.
Councillor Alex McLellan, the Council’s Finance and Resources Convener, said: “Aberdeen City Council’s 2025/26 budget allocated a record £140 million, including an additional £9.5 million to protect services, to the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership to deliver health and social care services on behalf of the Council.”
“These additional funds have ensured vital services, which are provided to some of the most vulnerable people in Aberdeen, by the Aberdeen City Health and Social Partnership are protected.
“There is clearly a need for the Integration Joint Board to go through a period of transformation, to reduce spend, embrace digital technology and find efficiencies but this approach needs to be a compassionate one and through a period of transition.”