Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe matters, and information about those matters, that must be included in an integration scheme (a “scheme”) prepared under section 1(2), 2(3) or 2(4) of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014 (“the Act”).
The Act requires Health Boards and local authorities to agree arrangements for joint working in their area in relation to certain of their statutory functions. This will have the effect that adult health and social care functions, and certain other health and social care functions, are provided in all local authority areas in a way which is integrated from the point of view of a person using those services. The Act provides that an integration scheme is to be prepared in relation to each local authority area setting out agreed arrangements for joint working in that area. Section 1(3) of the Act, read with these Regulations, sets out the information to be included in each scheme.
Regulation 2, together with the Schedule, sets out the requirement that a scheme is to include the prescribed information about the prescribed matters. Column A of the Schedule sets out the prescribed matters that must be included in the scheme, and column B sets out the prescribed information that must be provided about those matters. Column A makes provision for certain matters to be prescribed only when they are relevant to the other content of the integration scheme, in particular the integration model that the parties have chosen to use, as set out in the scheme.
Regulation 3 sets out that the prescribed information included in the scheme must be such information as has been agreed between the Health Board and local authority preparing the scheme.
Regulation 4 provides that the effect of prescribed information being included in the scheme is to require the Health Board and local authority which prepared the scheme, and the integration joint board or, as the case may be, integration joint monitoring committee established in pursuance of the scheme, to act in accordance with the provisions of the scheme.