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Month 10 Financial Performance

North Ayrshire Council · 20 March 2025
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Integration Joint Board
20th March 2025
Subject : 2024-25 – Month 10 Financial Performance 
Purpose : To provide an overview of the IJB’s financial performance as at
Month 10 (January). 
Recommendation : It is recommended that the IJB: 
(a) notes the overall integrated financial performance report for
the financial year 2024-25 and the current overall projected year-
end overspend of £4.980m which includes the recovery plan
reductions anticipated until the year-end;
(b) notes the progress with delivery of agreed savings;
(c) notes the actions which are being taken to progress financial
recovery and note the benefit of £4.002m achieved in-year; and
(d) notes the remaining financial risks for 2024-25. 
Direction Required to
Council, Health Board or
Both 
Direction to :- 
1. No Direction Required X
2. North Ayrshire Council 
3. NHS Ayrshire & Arran 
4. North Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire & Arran 
Glossary of Terms 
NHS AA NHS Ayrshire and Arran
HSCP Health and Social Care Partnership
MH Mental Health
MDT Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
BRAG Blue, Red, Amber, Green
UNPACS UNPACS, (UNPlanned Activities) – Extra Contractual Referrals
NRAC NHS Resource Allocation Committee
PAC Performance and Audit Committee
MHOF Mental Health Outcome Framework
MDT Multi-Disciplinary Team 
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
1.1 The report provides an overview of the financial position for the Partnership and
outlines the projected year-end outturn position informed by the projected
expenditure and income commitments; these have been prepared in conjunction with
relevant budget holders and services.   It should be noted that, although this report

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refers to the position at the end of January further work is undertaken following the
month end to finalise projections, therefore the projected outturn position is as current
and up to date as can practicably be reported. 
1.2  The projected outturn is a year-end overspend of £4.980m (1.5%). 
1.3  From the core projections, overall, the main areas of pressure are: care at home,
residential placements for children, physical and learning disability care packages,
supplementary staff in wards, staff costs in Montrose House and Unplanned Activities
(UnPACs) within the lead partnership for mental health. 
The main areas of movement in the reporting period are: 
Improvement:
• Ward 1 and 2
• Elderly Inpatients 
Deterioration:
• Montrose House agency costs
• Social Care payroll 
• Adult Inpatients
• Psychiatry 
The 2024/25 financial position has also been adversely impacted by several factors
outwith the control of the IJB, these have been noted previously by the IJB and
include in-year funding allocation reductions and externally negotiated contract
inflation increases. 
1.4 The Integration Scheme describes the required approach where there is a projected
overspend on the IJB integrated budget, which includes the requirement to agree a
recovery plan to balance the overspending budget.  Only if the recovery plan is
unsuccessful will the Health Board and Council consider making available interim
funds.  The Month 7 report presented to IJB on 12th December 2024 projected an
overspend of £6.190m reduced to an estimated £3.613m based on the recovery plan
estimates at that time.  The IJB requested that the Chief Officer write formally to North
Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire and Arran to request additional in-year funding
to support the remaining overspend, at that time.  Those requests have been
submitted to both funding bodies and acknowledged, NHS Ayrshire and Arran has
confirmed they will factor the overspend into the NHS Board financial outturn position
and North Ayrshire Council have acknowledged and confirmed they will take a report
to Cabinet as part of their final 2024/25 revenue budget monitoring in June 2025. 
The residual overspend has changed since Month 7 and monthly updates have been
provided to both NHS AA and NAC, the movement is noted below:

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Month NAC NHS AA
7 £2.548m £1.065m
9 £3.106m £1.309m
10 £3.180m £1.800m
1.5 The projected IJB outturn position has been adjusted to reflect the impact of Lead
Partnership services. The overspend in relation to North Lead Partnership services
for Mental Health is not fully attributed to the North HSCP as a share has been
allocated to East and South HSCPs, similarly the impact of the outturn on East and
South led services has been shared with North, both on an NRAC basis in line with
the agreed risk sharing mechanism.  There is a requirement for the 3 IJBs to be
aware of the position for Lead Partnership services and plans to deliver services from
within allocated budget, on that basis further information will be brought forward with
further detail on Lead Partnership services. 
1.6 The current allocation from NHS AA for the Agenda for Change costs in relation to
the reduced working week are currently being queried with the NHS finance team to
ensure we receive our ‘fair share’ of the funding.  The cost of covering all of the
reduced hours is £1.344m versus the current funding calculation of £0.658m which
would cover 49% of the costs if all of the hours were replaced, however NHS finance
proposals for in-year funding for 2024/25 are at a lower level.   It is important the IJB
receives a fair share of funding and this is rectified before budgets are rolled forward
into 2025/26. 
This funding is not yet included within the forecast outturn for services, and the final
allocation basis will potentially positively impact on the outturn for NHS AA delivered
services. 
Previous concerns were also raised in relation to the provision of financial information
and projections from NHS AA, these have been formally raised with the NHS AA
Chief Executive and work is ongoing with the HSCP and NHS AA finance teams to
improve the provision of timely access to accurate information. 
2. CURRENT POSITION 
2.1 The report includes an overview of the financial position including commitments
against the available resource, explanations for the main budget variances and an
update on progress in terms of savings delivery. 
2.2 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE – AT MONTH 10 
At month 10 against the full-year budget of £327.384m there is a projected year-end
overspend of £4.980m (1.5%).  The Integration Scheme outlines that there is an
expectation that the IJB takes account of the totality of resources available to balance
the budget in year.   Following this approach, an integrated view of the financial
position should be taken, however it is useful to note that this overall position consists

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of a projected overspend of £3.180m in social care services and a projected
overspend of £1.800m in health services.     
Appendix A provides the financial overview of the Partnership position. The sections
that follow outline the significant variances in service expenditure compared to the
approved budgets. 
The projections for some areas will be subject to fluctuations as they depend on
recruitment plans for new funding and also the capacity of providers to take on work. 
Appendix F provides information on the costs of bank and agency staff as requested
at the August IJB. 
2.3 Health and Community Care Services 
Against the full-year budget of £92.290m there is a projected overspend of £5.678m
(6.2%) (£0.063m favourable movement) and the main variances are: 
a) Care home placements – net projected overspend of £0.268m (£0.121m adverse
movement). 
The budgeted number of permanent placements was 765 and at month 10 there
were 779 placements which is an increase of 10 places from month 9. The
projected overspend is £1.084m (£0.177m adverse) on placements including
additional support costs.  Within this projection there is a projected overspend on 
interim placements (£0.084m favourable). 
Respite placements are projected to be £0.048 under spent (£0.048m
favourable). The plan to manage down the number of permanent placements to
reach the target is challenging due to the need to minimise delayed discharge
from hospital and to continue to support those in critical and substantial need in
the community. 
The overspend is partially offset by income recovered from charging orders which
is projected to be £0.816m over recovered (£0.056m favourable). This income is
challenging to predict as it depends on the length of the legal process and time
taken to sell the property that the charging order is registered to. 
b) Care at home is projected to be £2.635m overspent (net £0.072m adverse 
movement). The position reflects the cost of meeting the significant demand and
level of provision for care at home support.  This projection assumes all of the 
cover costs during month 9 in relation to sickness and festive cover arrangements
were paid in month 10.  The adverse movement relates to purchased care at
home.

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c) Physical Disability Services – projected overspend of £0.730m (£0.037m
favourable) split as follows: £1.240m over in residential placements, £0.158m
under in direct payments and £0.352m under in community care packages. 
d) Integrated Island Services is projected to overspend by £0.584m (£0.062m
adverse The most significant variance is a projected overspend at Montrose
House of £0.415m (£0.085m adverse movement) which relates to the net
overspend on agency staff (i.e. net of underspend on employee costs) and
overspends across property, supplies, admin and transport. A new contract to
procure agency nursing staff commenced in November. Payments due under the
NHS contract have been made in Period 10 & 11 and the full benefit of the lower
rates will be seen in 2025-26. 
e) Specialist Rehab wards – projected overspend of £0.006m (£0.033m adverse
movement) (Redburn ward £0.133m overspend and Douglas Grant £0.127m
underspend).  The overspend is due to cover costs for vacancies as well as
supplementary staffing for patients who require one to one support. 
f) Wards 1 and 2 – Projected overspend of £0.677m (£0.213m favourable
movement).  The overspend is due to increased use of bank and supplementary
staffing. 
g) District Nursing – projected to overspend by £0.071m (no movement) mainly due
to an overspend on nursing supplies. 
h) Equipment and Adaptions – projected overspend of £0.330m (no movement)
including an overspend on the supply of stairlifts. 
2.4 Mental Health Services 
Against the full-year budget of £109.794m there is a projected overspend of £2.695m
(2.5%) (adverse movement of £0.208m) prior to the re-allocation of the Lead
Partnership variance to East and South HSCP.  The main variances are: 
• Learning Disabilities are projected to overspend by £0.696m (£0.080m
favourable movement) across community care packages, direct payments
and residential placements.  This improvement reflects the positive impact of
assertive reviews of care packages and increased clawbacks from direct
payments. 
• Community Mental Health services are projected to underspend by £0.289m
(£0.031m adverse) across community care packages, direct payments and
residential placements. The main reason for underspend is the availability and
capacity of adult community providers to deliver new packages of care.

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• There is a projected underspend of £0.075m (no movement) in relation to the
cost of Hospital Based Complex Continuing Care (HBCCC), this reflects the
impact of change in provision for these services. 
• The Lead Partnership for Mental Health is projected to be £2.357m overspent
(£0.262m adverse movement) and the main variances are as follows: 
• Adult Inpatients – overspent by £0.121m (£0.016m adverse) due to
overspends in supplementary staff for enhanced observations (1:1 and
2:1) and use of bank staff. There is a favourable impact from the
opening of the adult mental health assessment hub which has seen the
adult inpatient areas with reduced occupancy. 
• The UNPACS (Unplanned Activities) budget – projected overspend is
£1.060m (£0.160m adverse movement) based on current placements.
The adverse movement is partly due to a new case in England who will
require repatriation to North Ayrshire. UnPACS placements are for
individuals with very specific needs that require a higher level of
security and/or care from a staff group with a particular skill
set/competence.  There are no local NHS secure facilities for women,
people with a learning disability or people with neurodevelopmental
disorder. This can necessitate an UNPACs placement with a specialist
provider which can be out-of-area.  The nature of mental health
UNPACs spend is that it is almost exclusively on medium- or long-term
complex secure residential placements which are very expensive so a
small change in placements can have a high budgetary impact. Due to
the complexity and risk involved, transitions between units or levels of
security can take many months. Applications to approve a placement
are made to the Associate Medical Director for Mental Health who
needs to be satisfied that the placement is appropriate and unavoidable
prior to this being agreed and furthermore remitted to the High Cost
Care Package Group. A new group has been established to review the
UnPACS budget and placements with a wider service representation. 
• Learning Disability Services – projected to underspend by £0.132m
(£0.061m adverse movement). The adverse movement is due to an
increased use of bank and agency staff in Ward 7A. This position is
after recharging other areas on a cost basis for two outwith authority
placements which have incurred additional costs in relation to usage of
supplementary staffing due to sustained enhanced observations. There
is a risk in relation to recovering this income as the two areas receiving
the charges are currently refusing to pay and legal advice is being
sought. The projected income due from prior and the current year is
£2.308m.  This risk has also been highlighted to NHS AA.

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• Elderly Inpatients – projected overspend of £0.451m (£0.075m
favourable movement) due to the use of supplementary staffing.  The
elderly mental health wards continue to operate at full occupancy and
at times with waiting lists, with several patients who are on enhanced
observations and bank costs remain high. 
• Eating Disorders – projected to overspend by £0.104m (no movement)
due to the staffing level being higher than the funding allocation.  This
will be considered alongside the overall resource allocation in future
years. 
• Psychiatry – is projected to overspend by £0.450m (£0.100m adverse
movement) due to the use of agency staff and junior doctors. A
mitigation plan has been developed which will see this overspend
significantly reduce moving into 2025/26. 
• MH Pharmacy – is projected to overspend by £0.658m (no movement)
due to increased demand and cost of medicines and in particular the
cost of Buvidal, further detail on this area of pressure has been shared
at the Finance Working Group.  This has also been shared with East
and South Ayrshire IJBs following the FWG for consideration of how to
manage this moving into next financial year. 
 Innovation Fund – projected underspend of £0.108m (no movement)
due to slippage within some of the projects and not all of the funding
has been allocated. 
• The turnover target for vacancy savings for the Lead Partnership is held
within the Lead Partnership as this is a Pan-Ayrshire target.  There is a
projected over recovery of the vacancy savings target of £0.200m (no
movement).  Further information is included in the table below: 
Vacancy Savings Target (£1.116m)
Projected to March 2025 £1.316m
Over/(Under) Achievement £0.200m
2.5 Children and Justice Services 
Against the full-year budget of £44.421m there is a projected overspend of £1.558m
(3.5%) (£0.072m favourable movement) and the main variances are: 
a) Care Experienced Children and Young People is projected to overspend by
£1.896m (£0.144m favourable). Some of these costs are offset by the contribution
from the Home Office for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children which is
detailed below. The main areas within this are noted below:

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• Following budget investment of £4m the children’s residential placements are
overspent by £1.748m (£0.037m favourable) based 28 placements in month
10. This demonstrates a reduction of 9 places since the start of the financial
year. There are a number of factors leading to this challenging position: 
• We have 32 places available in our internal children’s houses, due to
demand these have been operating at 100% occupancy or over for
some time, leading to increased use of external placements where
residential care is required.
• The requirement to support Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking
Children (UASC) under the National Transfer Scheme and to support
trafficked young people who have been identified in North Ayrshire.
• A number of young people in residential care have requested
Continuing Care, whereby a young person can remain in their
placement until age 21.
• Where appropriate young people are placed to meet their educational
needs, the cost of Residential School Placements in the most cases
is shared 50/50 with Education services. 
• Contractual inflation has increased the projected costs of residential
places which is outwith the control of the service. 
Children’s Services are continuing to work with other services including Education
and Housing to address the challenges through the work of the ‘Brighter Pathways’
Programme Board and associated workstreams.. 
• Looked After and Accommodated Children (fostering, adoption, kinship etc)
is projected to be £0.723m underspent (£0.007m adverse). 
• Children with disabilities – there is a net projected overspend of £0.537m
(£0.043m favourable movement) across residential placements, direct
payments and community packages. The favourable movement is due a
reduced projection in community packages.     
• Residential respite – placements are overspent by £0.143m (no movement).
These short-term placements are used to prevent an admission to full time
care or to avoid placement breakdown. 
• Employee costs – are projected to overspend by £0.114m (£0.046m
favourable movement), largely due to staffing levels in the children’s houses
and regrading of posts. 
b) Head of Service – is projected to underspend by £0.719m (£0.071m adverse
movement). This consists of a projected overspend due to the planned saving of
£0.223m in relation to the staff reconfiguration in the children’s houses which was
not achieved in 23-24 and this is offset by the grant funding in relation to
Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC), which is projected to amount

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to £0.922m (£0.025m adverse movement) and which contributes to costs incurred
across a number of C&F service areas.  The adverse movement in the grant
income is due to a backlog with the UASC claims and the actual income was less
than assumed. 
c) C&F Health Team – is projected to overspend by £0.284m (no movement) mainly
in relation to the Band 6 to 7 regrade for Health Visitors and the progression of
posts up the Band 7 scale.  Some provision for this has been incorporated into
budget pressures for 2025/26. 
2.6 ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (AHP) 
The non-employee costs element of the AHP services are projected to be on-line. 
All underspends in employee costs have contributed to payroll turnover. 
2.7 CHIEF SOCIAL WORK OFFICER 
This is projected to overspend by £0.037m.   
2.8 MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT 
Management and Support Services are projected to underspend by £3.678m
(£0.777m favourable) and the main areas of variance are: 
• There is projected slippage on the LD and MH transition funding of £0.961m
(£0.019m favourable) due to delays in children transitioning into adult services
and actual costs being less than estimated.  This involves complex planning
by services with service users and families and can change over time based
on assessed need when moving into adult services.
• The 2024-25 budget included a budgeted deficit on the social care side of
£0.437m which is offset by a budgeted surplus of £0.437m on the health side
of the budget.   The net impact is neutral, but Appendix A shows this position
for each element.
• The £0.100m saving in relation to recovery and rehab will not be achieved.
• There were favourable movements across various budget lines which resulted
in a £0.050m favourable movement (£0.050m favourable movement).
• The recovery plan actions in relation to the reserves and service redesign
funds totalling £0.873m are now reflected in the projection.
• An over-recovery of payroll turnover of £1.300m (£0.286m adverse) for social
care services and an over-recovery of payroll turnover of £0.417m for health
services as outlined in the table below.   
The turnover targets and achievement for the financial year for Health and Social
Care services outwith the Lead Partnership is noted below:

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Social Care Health
Vacancy Savings Target (£3.301m) (£1.522m)
Projected to be achieved by
March 2025
£4.601m £1.939m
Over/(Under) Achievement £1.300m £0.417m  
The areas contributing to the health and social care vacancy savings are spread
across a wide range of services with vacancy savings being achieved in most areas.  
As part of the recovery plan, the vacancy scrutiny group has been enhanced with the
Heads of Service and professional leads attending.  Each post is scrutinised and
filled only where deemed necessary with a recruitment freeze now implemented for
all non-essential posts. This has led to an increase in the level of turnover when
projected to the year end.   
The turnover target for the North Lead Partnership for Mental Health services is
detailed separately within the Lead Partnership information at section 2.4. 
2.9 Savings Progress 
a) The approved 2024-25 budget included £10.290m of savings. 
BRAG Status Position at
Budget Approval
£m
Position at
Month 10
£m
Red - 0.586
Amber 0.523 -
Green 9.767 -
Blue - 9.704
TOTAL 10.290 10.290 
b) The main area to note is that the red savings in relation to care homes and
recovery and rehab will not be achieved in 2024-25. 
Appendix B provides an overview of those service changes which do have financial
savings attached to them and the BRAG status around the deliverability of each
saving. 
2.10 Budget Changes 
The Integration Scheme states that “either party may increase it’s in year payment to
the Integration Joint Board.  Neither party may reduce the payment in-year to the
Integration Joint Board nor Services managed on a Lead Partnership basis….
without the express consent of the Integration Joint Board.” Appendix C highlights
the movement in the budget position following the initial approved budget. 
There are no reductions requiring approval in month 10.

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2.11 Pan Ayrshire Lead Partnership services and Large Hospital Set Aside 
Lead Partnerships: - The IJB position is adjusted to reflect the impact of Lead
Partnership services. The outturn for all Lead Partnership services is shared across
the 3 Partnerships on an NRAC basis. 
The outturn in relation to North Lead Partnership services is not fully attributed to the
North IJB as a share is allocated to East and South Partnerships; similarly, the impact
of the outturn on East and South led services is shared with North. At Month 9 the
MH lead partnership is projected to overspend by £2.357m (£0.772m NRAC share
for East and £0.674m for South). 
South HSCP (month 9 info) – projected overspend of £0.617m of which £0.228m
will be allocated to North. The variance is mainly due to an overspend of £0.431m in
the community store.  This includes the costs of replacing mattresses, repairs and
maintenance contract and equipment costs. There is also a projected overspend of
£0.181m in the continence service and an overspend £0.004m in the Family Nurse
Partnership. 
East HSCP (month 9 info) - projected underspend of £0.225m (£0.025m favourable)
in total (of which £0.083m will be allocated to North). The main variances are: 
Allied Health Professions 
There is a projected underspend of £0.338m (£0.302m at month 6) on AHPs services
hosted by East Ayrshire for the current year, which mainly relates to staffing savings
in Physiotherapy / MSK and Podiatry services and is partially offset by increased
Orthotics costs. 
Primary Care and Out of Hours Services 
There is a small projected underspend of £0.010m (£0.064m projected underspend
at month 6) on the Primary Care Lead Partnership budget, with additional costs in
Out of Hours services £0.347m (£0.321m at month 6), with work ongoing to mitigate
increased costs as far as possible over the course of the 2024/25 financial year and
going forward, as well as additional Primary Care contracting and support costs
£0.037m (£0.027m projected underspend at month 6). These additional costs are
offset by a projected underspend in Dental services totalling £0.439m (£0.344m
month 6), where staffing numbers are running at less than establishment.
Recruitment over the remainder of the financial year has the potential to impact
further on the projected outturn position at month 9. In addition, there are projected
additional Primary Medical Services costs £0.092m (£0.058m projected underspend
at month 6). This mainly relates to updated information on staffing costs, including
maternity, paternity and sick leave costs.

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Prison and Police Healthcare 
The £0.021m projected overspend at month 9 is largely due increased staffing costs
due to recruitment to vacant posts, as well as increased prescribing costs (£0.101m
overall projected underspend at month 6). 
Other Services 
The £0.102m (£0.106m at month 6) projected overspend is due to increased Area
Wide Evening Services costs, mainly due to additional staffing costs including high
use of bank staff, which will require to be further addressed going forward. 
Set Aside: - Work has been undertaken with partnerships to progress and develop
set aside arrangements to fully implement the legislative requirement.  This includes
arrangements in relation to the use of Directions, Joint Commissioning Plans and
overall progression towards fair share allocations of resources.            
Further work has been undertaken through the Ayrshire Finance Leads group to
establish baseline resources for each partnership and how these compare to the
NRAC “fair share” of resources. Ayrshire Finance Leads have now agreed a
baseline methodology for set aside budgets which involves using the four full years
prior to the pandemic, 2016/17 – 2019/20 inclusive.  
The HSCPs require to agree their final share of the baseline with each other,
however the aggregate will remain unchanged. The table below shows the cost of
the historic baseline at 2022/23 prices.  
IJB
Baseline at
2022/23
prices      
(£)
East 26,215,888
North 35,007,962
South 28,371,789
Total 89,595,639  
The annual budget for Acute Services is £461.5 million.  The directorate overspent
by £29 million after 10 months. This was caused by overspends on agency medical
and nursing staff, together with drug expenditure including the New Medicines Fund,
equipment and supplies. These have been required due to the level of operational
pressure being experienced, in common with many other areas in Scotland. Whilst
unfunded beds remained open across both main hospital sites during October,
progress is now being made in reducing these with commensurate financial
improvement expected to follow. 
There is a material underlying deficit caused by:

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• Unachieved efficiency savings
• Length of Stay (LoS) and emergency admission rates in NHS Ayrshire and
Arran acute hospitals are above the Scottish average.
• High expenditure on medical and nursing agency staff, high rates of absence
and vacancies causing service pressure.
• Delayed transfers of care and high acuity of patients.
The IJBs and the Health Board work closely in partnership to maintain service and
improve performance. Initial work has commenced to develop a joint strategic
commissioning plan for the provision of unscheduled care services, which will outline
these services will be delivered over the medium-term using the set aside resources
available. This will support a shift in the balance of care into the community and
support a reduction in the number of acute beds.   
2.12 FINANCIAL RISKS 
There are a number of financial risk areas that impact or may impact on the financial
position. 
• The announcements by Scottish Government in relation to public sector
finances and in-year spending reductions will impact on current and future
funding, including for 2024-25 pay awards, which have been settled for local
government and NHS but the 25-26 position is unclear.
• Continued growing demand for services.
• Staff recruitment and retention challenges across a number of service areas.
• The provider market and the ongoing ability to source packages of care for
service users and to respond to ongoing concerns re financial sustainability
from providers.
• The expectation that performance will continue to be maintained or improved
despite the significant resource challenges, for example the joint mission for
delayed discharge improvement.
• Ongoing delivery costs of Scottish Government policy directives, particularly
where these are not fully funded or inflation proofed – with in-year funding
allocations for example the Mental Health Outcomes Framework
• The ongoing review of the Integration Scheme.
• Progress with the work to develop set aside arrangements and the risk
sharing arrangements agreed as part of this.
• The wider system financial challenges, especially the financial position of
NHS Ayrshire and Arran Health Board, their financial deficit and the risks
around further escalation in the national framework for financial escalation. 
North Ayrshire IJB have already discussed our position in relation to the
request for payment for delayed discharges last financial year.

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• The recurring underlying levels of overspend which may impact on the
Partnership’s ability to continue to sustain service levels in the future.
• The IJB free general fund reserves are estimated to be fully used during this
financial year, leading to an increased risk of requiring additional in-year
financial contributions from NHS Ayrshire and Arran and North Ayrshire
Council to break even. 
• High risk areas of low volume / high-cost services areas e.g. Children’s
residential placements, Learning Disability care packages and complex care
packages; 
• Lead / hosted service arrangements, including managing pressures and
reporting this across the 3 IJBs and the impact on Lead Partnership and acute
services from decisions taken by other Ayrshire areas.
• The use of supplementary staffing for enhanced observations across a
number of service areas and the use of high-cost agency staff to support
frontline service delivery in areas where there are recruitment challenges.
• Agenda for Change Pay Reform programme – including Nursing Band 5-6 re-
grade, protected learning time and reduction to the working week. Non-
recurring funding has been provided to NHS AA to meet costs associated with
this but as noted the HSCP are challenging the proposed allocation
methodology for pass through funding. 
• External contract uplifts and frameworks, for example Scotland Excel
inflationary increases for children’s service are significantly higher than
assumed.
• There is a risk in relation to recovering recharge income in relation to the LD
Assessment and Treatment patients from outwith Ayrshire. 
These risks will continue to be monitored during 2024-25 and moving into 2025-26. 
2.13 RESERVES 
The IJB reserves position is summarised in the table below. 
General Fund
Reserve Earmarked Reserves
Total 
Unearmarked  External
Funding                      HSCP 
£m  £m £m £m
Balance – 1 April 2024 0.357  3.379 1.774 5.510
Anticipated Drawdown (0.357)  (3.379) (1.202) (4.938)
Balance – 31 March 2025 -  - 0.572 0.572 
The £1.774m HSCP earmarked reserve relates to the Service Redesign and Change
Fund which is fully committed across 2024/25 and 2025/26. A further review will be
undertaken of the 2025/26 balance alongside consideration of the budget. 
Further detail on the reserves is given in Appendix D.

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2.14 Financial Recovery Plan 
The IJB set a balanced budget for 2024/25 on 14th March 2024. This did not require
any draw on reserves but did include the approval of £10.290m of savings to achieve
financial balance. 
Following the finalisation of the 2023/24 outturn position, the IJB agreed some initial
recovery actions at the meeting in June 2024. In line with the requirements of the
integration scheme, work has continued to develop the financial recovery plan and
identify further targets for financial improvements. The recovery plan savings
achieved are outlined in full at Appendix E.  This appendix also outlines the draft
2025-26 opening position, as some of the areas of recovery will have a recurring
impact on the budget position, with the impact on the 2025-26 opening position
estimated to be £1.595m.  This will require to be addressed as part of the 2025-26
budget planning. 
Since the initial recovery plan was agreed in June 2024 there has been a £4.002m
reduction in costs, whilst the full benefit of this has not been realised in-year in the
bottom line outturn, it has supported the delivery of mitigating a further deterioration
to the position introduced through other in-year unexpected financial pressures. 
Services will continue to work towards implementing the recovery plan to deliver cost
reduction targets while carefully managing the level of risk. 
MANAGEMENT ACTIONS/CONTROLS: 
Other management actions which have been implemented include: 
• Review of expenditure authorisation levels across the Partnership and
escalation of specific decisions to senior officers. In particular, a new
governance group has been introduced, involving the Director and Heads of
Service, to oversee the agreement of higher value packages of care (above
£40,000 per annum).
• Staff communication in relation to discretionary/non-essential spend.
• Review of temporary posts and robust vacancy management/approval.  The
vacancy scrutiny group now has representation from all of the Heads of
Service and a recruitment freeze will be implemented for all but essential
frontline posts.
• Restrictions on all but essential overtime working.
• Ongoing review of future year savings or transformation programmes to
identify scope for acceleration.
• Maximise opportunities from the recently reopened Independent Living Fund
(ILF) Scotland.

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GOVERNANCE: 
• In order to facilitate greater scrutiny of the financial position and the delivery
of the financial recovery plan during 2024/25, the IJB agreed at the June
meeting to establish a ‘Finance Working Group’, chaired by the IJB Vice Chair.
The Director and Heads of Service will be members of the group. This will
meet monthly to facilitate increased oversight and scrutiny of the financial
position and transformation programme as well as detailed budget planning
for future financial years. Meetings have now been scheduled to the end of
the year.  
To date the Finance Working Group has met six times and covered:
• Care at home
• Care homes
• Charging income
• Financial inclusion
• An overview of the 24/25 budget
• Brighter Pathways project
• Addictions Prescribing
• Medium-Term Financial Outlook
• 2025/26 Budget Outlook
• Delayed discharge performance and improvement actions
• Community OT – Aids and Adaptations
• Budget Planning for 2025/26 
The Finance Working Group acknowledged the efforts being made by the
senior management team and services and notes the progress being made to
work towards a sustainable financial position for the partnership. 
• Strengthened support from Finance Team to front line services and increased
engagement with Heads of Service and Senior Management Teams, including
line by line reviews of all budget areas.  Review and enhancement of
frequency and level of financial information provided to support oversight and
decision making in line with financial constraints, with an added focus on areas
of underspend to maximise opportunities to delay or stop spend and contribute
to the overall financial challenge. 
INTEGRATION SCHEME 
The Integration Scheme describes the required approach where there is a projected
overspend: 
The Chief Officer will deliver the Outcomes within the total delegated resources (paid
and Set Aside) and where there is a forecast overspend against an element of the
operational budget, the Chief Officer, the Chief Finance Officer of the Integration
Joint Board and the appropriate finance officers of the Parties must agree a recovery
plan to balance the overspending budget, which recovery plan shall be subject to the

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approval of the Integration Joint Board. If the recovery plan is not successful the
Parties will consider making interim funds available based on the agreed percentage 
contribution for joint responsibilities, as outlined above, with repayment in future
years on the basis of a revised recovery plan agreed by the Parties and Integration
Joint Board. 
The Month 7 report presented to IJB on 12th December 2024 projected an overspend
of £6.190m reduced to an estimated £3.613m based on the recovery plan estimates
at that time.  The IJB requested that the Chief Officer write formally to North Ayrshire
Council and NHS Ayrshire and Arran to request additional in-year funding to support
the remaining overspend, at that time.  Those requests have been submitted to both
funding bodies and acknowledged, NHS Ayrshire and Arran has confirmed they will
factor the overspend into the NHS Board financial outturn position and North Ayrshire
Council have acknowledged and confirmed they will take a report to Cabinet as part
of their final 2024/25 revenue budget monitoring in June 2025. 
The residual overspend has changed since Month 7 and monthly updates have been
provided to both NHS AA and NAC, the movement is noted below: 
Month NAC NHS AA
7 £2.548m £1.065m
9 £3.106m £1.309m
10 £3.180m £1.800m
3. PROPOSALS 
3.1 Anticipated Outcomes 
Continuing to closely monitor the financial position will allow the IJB to take corrective
action where required to deliver services in 2024-25 mitigating the impact on the
financial position, thereby limiting the financial risk to the funding partners. 
The transformational change programme will have the greatest impact on the
financial sustainability of the partnership, the IJB require to have a clear
understanding of progress with the delivery of the transformation plan. 
3.3 Measuring Impact 
Ongoing updates to the financial position have been reported to the IJB throughout
2024-25, the final outturn position for 2024-25 will be reported to the IJB in June
2025. 
4. IMPLICATIONS 
4.1 Financial
The outturn is a projected overall year-end overspend of £4.980m (1.5%). The report
outlines the main variances for individual services.  The IJB unearmarked reserve
balance is projected to be zero by the end of the financial year.  This current position
poses a financial risk to North Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire and Arran and also
for the IJBs financial position moving into 2025-26.

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4.2 Human Resources
The report highlights vacancy or turnover savings achieved during the year. Services
will review any staffing establishment plans and recruitment in line with normal
practice when implementing service change and reviews as per agreement with the
IJB.  Tight vacancy scrutiny management arrangements are in place for the HSCP
and will require to remain in place moving into 2025-26. 
4.3 Legal
None. 
4.4 Equality/Socio-Economic
None. 
4.5 Risk
Para 2.12 highlights the financial risks.
The report falls in line with the agreed risk appetite statement which is a low-risk
appetite in respect to adherence to standing financial instructions, financial controls
and financial statutory duties and a high-risk appetite in relation to finance and value
for money.
The ‘financial viability of the HSCP’ risk on our strategic risk register has increased
the risk score to reflect the 23/24 outturn and current projected 24/25 overspend. 
4.6 Community Wealth Building
None.
4.7 Key Priorities
The ability to deliver on our strategic priorities may be compromised due to the
greater financial risk faced in 2024-25 and the increased focus required on financial
rather than service improvement. This will be kept under close scrutiny throughout
2024-25. If we are unable to successfully develop a financial recovery plan to achieve
financial balance, consideration may be given to revising the strategic commissioning
plan accordingly.   
5. CONSULTATION 
5.1 This report has been produced in consultation with relevant budget holders and the
Partnership Senior Management Team. 
5.2 The IJB financial monitoring report is shared with the NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Director of Finance and North Ayrshire Council’s Head of Finance after the report
has been finalised for the IJB. 
Caroline Cameron, Director 
Author – Eleanor Currie, Interim Chief Finance Officer 
[eleanorcurrie@north-ayrshire.gov.uk]

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
2024-25 Budget Monitoring Report–Objective Summary as at 31st January 2025                                                                 Appendix A 
Budget Outturn
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Outturn
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Outturn 
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
COMMUNITY CARE AND HEALTH 72,661 77,348 4,687 19,629 20,620 991 92,290 97,968 5,678 5,741 (63)
: Locality Services 30,419 31,529 1,110 5,624 5,696 72 36,043 37,225 1,182 1,139 43
: Community Care Service Delivery 38,180 40,871 2,691 0 0 38,180 40,871 2,691 2,681 10
: Rehabilitation and Reablement 2,062 2,432 370 0 0 2,062 2,432 370 359 11
: Long Term Conditions 913 954 41 9,812 10,622 810 10,725 11,576 851 1,041 (190)
: Community Link Workers 331 331 0 0 0 0 331 331 0 (1) 1
: Integrated Island Services 756 1,231 475 4,193 4,302 109 4,949 5,533 584 522 62
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 34,295 34,708 413 75,499 77,781 2,282 109,794 112,489 2,695 2,487 208
: Learning Disabilities 25,788 26,484 696 564 564 0 26,352 27,048 696 776 (80)
: Community Mental Health 6,467 6,178 (289) 1,793 1,793 0 8,260 7,971 (289) (320) 31
: Addictions 2,040 2,046 6 1,943 1,943 0 3,983 3,989 6 11 (5)
: HBCCC 0 0 0 353 278 (75) 353 278 (75) (75) 0
: Lead Partnership Mental Health NHS Area Wide 0 0 0 70,846 73,203 2,357 70,846 73,203 2,357 2,095 262
CHILDREN & JUSTICE SERVICES 39,243 40,477 1,234 5,178 5,502 324 44,421 45,979 1,558 1,630 (72)
: Irvine, Kilwinning and Three Towns 3,040 3,072 32 0 0 0 3,040 3,072 32 37 (5)
: Garnock Valley, North Coast and Arran 3,138 3,189 51 0 0 0 3,138 3,189 51 48 3
:Intervention Services 1,689 1,685 (4) 0 0 0 1,689 1,685 (4) (6) 2
: Care Experienced Children & Young people 27,397 29,293 1,896 0 0 0 27,397 29,293 1,896 2,040 (144)
: Head of Service - Children & Families 1,091 372 (719) 0 0 0 1,091 372 (719) (790) 71
: Justice Services 2,472 2,472 0 0 0 0 2,472 2,472 0 0 0
: C&F Health Team 416 394 (22) 4,447 4,754 307 4,863 5,148 285 284 1
: Lead Partnership NHS Children's Services 0 0 0 731 748 17 731 748 17 17 0
CHIEF SOCIAL WORK OFFICER 1,598 1,635 37 0 0 0 1,598 1,635 37 16 21
PRIMARY CARE 0 0 0 53,830 53,821 (9) 53,830 53,821 (9) (9) 0
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 0 0 10,914 10,914 0 10,914 10,914 0 0 0
MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT COSTS 9,821 6,630 (3,191) 4,716 4,229 (487) 14,537 10,859 (3,678) (2,901) (777)
OUTTURN ON A MANAGED BASIS 157,618 160,798 3,180 169,766 172,867 3,101 327,384 333,665 6,281 6,964 (683)
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance at
Period 9
Movement in  
variance
from Period
9
TOTAL
Partnership Budget - Objective Summary
Council Health
2024/25 Budget

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PUBLIC INFORMATION 
TOTAL Budget Budget
Budget Revised
Outturn
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Revised
Outturn
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Outturn 
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
Return Hosted Over/Underspends East 0 0 0 0 (772) (772) 0 (772) (772) (686) (86)
Return Hosted Over/Underspends South 0 0 0 0 (674) (674) 0 (674) (674) (599) (75)
Receive Hosted Over/Underspends South 0 0 0 0 228 228 0 228 228 228 0
Receive Hosted Over/Underspends East 0 0 0 0 (83) (83) 0 (83) (83) (83) 0
OUTTURN ON AN IJB BASIS 157,618 160,798 3,180 169,766 171,566 1,800 327,384 332,364 4,980 5,824 (844)
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance at
Period 9
Movement in  
variance
from Period
9
Partnership Budget - Objective Summary
2024/25 Budget
Council Health

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
2024-25 Savings Tracker          Appendix B 
Social Care:
Description
Deliverability
Status at
budget
setting
Deliverability
Status at
Month 10
2024/25
Saving
Description of the Saving
Children, Families & Criminal Justice
Service redesign Amber Blue 0.123 Restructure areas of specialist service provision including
substance use and corporate parenting, embedding the roles and
functions of those teams within our locality-based early intervention
approaches and strategic planning including engagement.
Community Care & Health
Review of Day Care provision Amber Blue 0.100 Carry out a review and streamline day care provision.
Sensory Impairment Team Green Blue 0.062 Remove the dedicated management post and realign the team into
core social work teams.
Care Home places Green Red 0.375 Reduce the number of funded care home places by 15, leaving
budgetary provision for 765 places at average cost.
Charging for community alarm provision
to sheltered housing tenants
Amber Blue 0.200 Introduce a charge for community alarm provision in council
sheltered housing units to ensure an equitable approach across all
housing tenures.
Montrose House capacity Green Red 0.111 Restrict the capacity at Montrose House care home to the current
level of residency.
Voluntary Early Release Green Blue 0.174 Recurring savings achieved by the release of back-office staff
through the council's voluntary early release scheme.
Carers Strategy funding Green Blue 0.384 Utilise the remaining Carer's Strategy funding to invest in respite
provision and short breaks for carers and to support existing
investments in services which support unpaid carers.
Increase to charging Green Blue 0.131 Increase charges for non-residential care by 10% and charges for
residential care by 5%
Remove vacant posts Green Blue 0.280 Remove a number of vacant posts across support services.
Employers' superannuation contributions Green Blue 7.238 Align the budget to the new employer superannuation contribution
rates from 1st April 2024.
Payroll Turnover Green Blue 0.077 Increase targets for payroll turnover through the recruitment
process.
TOTAL SOCIAL CARE SAVINGS 9.255
North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership
2024/25 Savings
Support Services and Partnership-wide savings

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PUBLIC INFORMATION 
Health:
Description
Deliverability
Status at
budget
setting
Deliverability
Status at
Month 10
2024/25
Saving
Description of the Saving
Hospital Based Complex Continuing
Care (HBCCC) provision
Green Blue 0.500 Align the budget to the level of ongoing need for HBCCC provision.
Increase recharge to East Ayrshire for
beds at Woodland View
Green Blue 0.021 Apply an inflationary increase to the recharge to East Ayrshire
HSCP.
Community Recovery and Rehab
provision
Amber Red 0.100 Review and streamline a range of current provisions to remove
duplication.
Enhanced ICT Green Blue 0.100 Carry out a review of the service delivery model and release
recurring staffing savings.
Payroll Turnover Green Blue 0.314 Increase targets for payroll turnover through the recruitment
process.
TOTAL HEALTH SAVINGS 1.035
TOTAL NORTH HSCP SAVINGS 10.290

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
2024-25 Budget Reconciliation               Appendix C 
COUNCIL Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Initial Approved Budget 156.190
Adjustments to baseline (0.574)
Less Resource Transfer 23/24 (24.640)
Revised Budget 130.976
Resource Transfer 24/25 1-3 P 25.169
Realign Girfec Team To Connected Comm 1-3 P (0.073)
ICT Budget Transfers 1-3 P (0.006)
CJSW Funding 2425 1-3 T 0.053
Childrens Living Wage Allocation 1-3 T 0.525
ICT Budget Transfers 6 P -0.002
ICT Budget Transfers 6 P -0.003
Post Realigned from the Policy,
Performance & Elections Team 6 P 0.059
Transfer to FM Services re Cleaning
Services at West Road 6 P -0.01
Transfer to Capital re West Road 7 T -0.281
Transfer from NAC Commercial Waste 7 T 0.007
ICT Budget Transfers 9 P -0.002
Summer Activities EMF Q2 & Q3 Draw-
Down 9 T 0.002
Pay Award 24/25 9 P 1.057
Scottish Disability Allowance 9 P 0.134
Transfer from Housing re Domestic
Abuse Alarns 10 P 0.017
Roundings 10 T -0.004
157.618
HEALTH Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Initial Budget exc set aside 157.894
Add Resource Transfer 23/24 24.640
Month 10-12 Adjustments and adjusting
for the full year impact of part years
amounts and temporary funding.
(0.033)
Revised Budget P 182.501
Add resource Transfer 24/25 (25.169)
North Superannuation 24/25 uplift 1 1.134
MH: ANTICIPATE HOLLYBUSH COMBAT
STRESS 24/25 1 1.424
MH: ANTICIPATE DELIVERY OF
VETERAN SPECIFIC 24/25 1 0.105
MH: ANTICIPATE PERINATAL MH,
INFANT MH (INCL MNPI) 24/25 1 0.750
Training grade ADJ - April 1 0.063
Pecos Nurse Post 1 (0.018)
Script Switch To Pharmacy 1 (0.002)
Breastfeeding Pay Award - South 2 0.005
Nest - South 2 0.066
24-25 Bwg Foxgrove North 2 0.033
24-25 E Bwp Breast Feeding - North 2 0.005
24-25 E Bwp Huntingtons North 2 0.005
24-25 E Bwp Nest North 2 0.066
Phlebotomy Admin Returned 2 0.005
23-24 - 50% North Share to East - Tier 3
Weight Management 2 (0.077)
24-25 North Share to East - Tier 3 Weight
Management 2 (0.022)
Anticipate Adp Afc Pay Uplift 3 0.091
Anticipate Adp Drug Prevalence 3 0.084
Anticipate Adp Lived & Living Exp 3 0.013
Anticipate Adp Mat 3 0.250
Social Care Budget Reported at Month 10

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PUBLIC INFORMATION 
HEALTH Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Initial Budget exc set aside 157.894
Anticipate Adp National Mission 3 0.296
Anticipate Adp Residential Rehab 3 0.134
Anticipate Adp Whole Family Approach 3 0.094
Training Grade Adj - Jun 3 (0.054)
Ambush North Rx 3 1.573
Ambush North Rx Cres 3 (1.477)
24-25 North Budget Paper - Office 365 (to
East) 3 (0.073)
24-25 North Budget Paper - Prison Pharm
Contract (to East) 3 (0.093)
South Mat Funding - Psychiatrist 3 0.029
Hd198: Early Intervention In Psychosis/ Body
Image And Social Media Resource 3 0.242
Hd203: Digital Mental Health Programme
Licence & Support 3 0.005
Reduction to the Working Week (mth 2 - 4) 4 0.105
Post to medical records 4 (0.037)
HD107: breast Feeding project funds 4 0.056
BBV 4 0.280
Rww 1/2 Hour Overtime M5 5 0.006
Min Anp Allocation 5 0.020
Ml: Nr Prog - Mappa 5 0.004
Training Grade Adj - August 5 0.051
Training Grade Vac Adj - August 5 (0.025)
MH: Return Hollybudh anticipated budget
back to reserves 24/25 5 (1.424)
HD271: Combat Stress Clinical services for
Veterans 5 0.583
Reduction to the Working Week 1/2 Hour
Overtime M6 6 0.002
Hd283 24-25 Pharmacy Tariff Red 6 (0.031)
Reduction to the Working Week 1/2 Hour
Overtime M7 7 0.003
Afc Partnership Pay Award 7 4.710
Training Grade Adj - October 7 (0.026)
24-25 E Bwp Huntington's North - Return To
East 7 (0.005)
Mh - Afc Reform Reduced Working Week 7 0.037
Pharmacy Tarrif reduction reinstated 7 0.031
Return Anticipated MDT 7 (0.316)
MDT reduction by SG 7 0.179
Anticipated budgets assumed in the report but
not yet allocated 7 1.724
Rww 1/2 Hour Overtime M8 8 0.002
Ret Antic Mdt 24-25 Alloc Correct 8 (0.017)
Virement No. 14: North Mdt Funds To Arran
Medical Group 8 (0.041)
HD231: PDS Dementia 8 0.094
Mh: Return Afc Partnership Pay Award 8 0.146
Fund RX Overspend at M8 8 0.396
Rww Worked November Paid December 9 0.001
MH: ALLOCATE MAT STANDARDS - MAT
7 PRIMARY CARE (PAN AYRSHIRE)
PHARMACIST
9 (0.042)
MH: ADP 24/25 - ABI to East 9 (0.010)
HD413: Veterans Specific Services - Combat
Stress 9 0.010
Medical Pay Award Part 1 9 0.804
Med Pay Award - December 9 0.182
Fund Rx Overspent At M9 9 0.325
Roundings 9 0.001
169.766
TOTAL COMBINED BUDGET 327.384
Health Budget Reported at Month 10

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
24-25 IJB Reserves Position      Appendix D 
Area of Reserves
Balance at
31 March
2024
2024-25
Anticipated
Draw Downs
Projected
Balance at
31 March
2025
: Alcohol & Drug Partnership 641 (641) 0
: Mental Health Action 15 57 (57) 0
: Service Redesign / Challenge Fund 1,774 (1,202) 572
: Community Living Change Fund 377 (377) 0
: Family Wellbeing Fund 1,313 (1,313) 0
: Wellbeing Fund 50 (50) 0
: Breast Feeding Network 26 (26) 0
: MH Recovery and Renewal 546 (546) 0
: Buvidal 23 (23) 0
: Brooksby 5 (5) 0
: Cossette Funding 4 (4) 0
: Expansion of Primary Care Estates 55 (55) 0
: GP Premises Improvements - tranches 1 and
2 63 (63) 0
: Mental Health Wellbeing in Primary Care 81 (81) 0
: Dental Practice Improvement 29 (29) 0
:Appropriate Adult Scheme 2 (2) 0
:Adult Tier 3 Weight Management Service 19 (19) 0
: Phlebotomy 22 (22) 0
: LD Health Checks 66 (66) 0
Total Earmarked 5,153 (4,581) 572
Unallocated General Fund 357 (357) 0
General Fund 5,510 (4,938) 572
Earmarked Funds

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
Financial Recovery Action Plan          Appendix E
SERVICE AREA TOTAL
ACHIEVED  
Health and Community Care 
Reduce care home placements in line with budget saving (0.200)
Reduce CAH capacity/delay recruitment/in-house efficiencies (0.850)
Community Wards - reduce supplementary staffing and review bed capacity (0.450)  
MH and LD (North Ayrshire) 
HBCCC mitigation plan (0.075)  
MH and LD (Lead Partnership) 
Ward staffing (adults/elderly inpatients) (0.300)
CEDS/CAMHS (0.098)  
North Ayrshire share (38.6%) (0.154)  
Children and Families 
Reduce children's external placements - early reduction from Brighter Pathways
work (0.900)
Reduce investment in C&F social work via service redesign fund (0.300)  
Cross Partnership 
Vacancy management and temporary posts (0.500)
Use of remaining reserve balance (0.357)
Review of earmarked reserves (0.216)  
TOTAL RECOVERY PLAN SAVINGS ACHIEVED (NA Share) (4.002)  
Non-Recurring (reserves and vacancy management) (1.373)
Recurring Savings (2.629)  
Projected Overspend 24/25 - M10 4.980  
Full Year Impact: 
Brighter Pathways 0.850
Care at Home 0.850
Montrose House Agency Staff 0.300
Care Homes - into line with placements 0.268
Care Packages - LD & MH - full year impact 24-25 reductions 0.407
Equip and Adapt 0.330
Share of Lead Partnership  0.380
Other areas 0.056
Residual 25-26 opening position 1.595

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
Bank and Agency Costs to Month 10      Appendix F 
Bank and Agency Costs M1-10 2024-25
1) NHS
4863
(Registered)
4864
(Unregistered)
4853
(Registered)
4854
(Unregistered)
4865 (Agency
Locum
Consultant)
4867 (Agency
Locum Spec
Registrar) TOTAL
NORTH CORE SLT ADULT -                   
WARD 1 WOODLANDS VIEW 56,737              333,629            390,366           
WARD 2 WOODLANDS VIEW 36,934              349,321            386,254           
ACH REDBURN REHAB WARD NRS 9,501                96,421              105,922           
ACH DOUGLAS GRANT REHAB WD NRS 17,631              47,499              530                    65,660             
WARD 3 WOODLANDS VIEW NURSING 37,015              289,730            1,589                 709                 329,043           
WARD 4 WOODLANDS VIEW NURSING 34,683              210,514            185                 245,382           
NEW CLONBEITH NURSING(JURA) 110,373            112,343            222,717           
WVIEW THE GLEN ECT 1,989                1,989               
WVIEW WARD 10 ACUTE MH NRS 36,700              62,843              99,544             
WVIEW WARD 8 ACUTE MH NRS 34,381              673,589      251                 708,220           
WARD 5 WOODLANDS VIEW 19,694              21,856        41,549             
WVIEW WARD 7B REHAB MH NRS 4,901                4,901               
NEW DUNURE NURSING(CLONBEITH) 35,345              152,405      187,750           
MH BED MANAGEMENT 3,708                3,708               
TRINDLEMOSS 64,034              184,672            582                    379                 249,667           
ARRAN HOSPITAL NURSING 23,337              24,372              13,091               60,800             
CAMHS MANAGEMENT 1,943                1,943               
CAMHS UNSCHEDULED CARE 8,591                8,591               
EARLY YRS-C/F TEAM 2 290                   290                  
IMMUNISATION NURSING 61,852              44,371              106,223           
ARRAN HV 506                   161                    667                  
PACKAGE OF CARE (P) - CY 22,276              22,276             
PACKAGE OF CARE (P) - AMG 71,022              71,022             
PACKAGE OF CARE (P) - LMO 6,752                6,752               
ARRAN DN 1,401                1,401               
NC POC TEAM 2 2,875                2,875               
NC POC TEAM 3 3,080                3,080               
THREE TOWNS DN 16,206              16,206             
IRVINE DN 23,114              23,114             
NORTH WEST COAST DN 6,942                99              7,042               
GARNOCK VALLEY DN 91,532              91,532             
NORTH DN TEAM LEADERS 4,286                4,286               
NORTH AHP MANAGEMENT TEAM 9,876                9,876               
LADY MARGARET NURSING 13,465              6,999          20,464             
PREVENTION + SERVICES SPT TEAM 1,481                1,481               
MH UNPACS (PRIVATE) -                   
LD HEALTH CHECKS 114,150      114,150           
NORTH CLDT 429            429                  
LDS MANAGEMENT 6,153          6,153               
NORTH PARTNERSHIP ADMIN MH 13                      13                    
MHS INPATIENT MGT 27,551        27,551             
CMHT NURSING-NORTH AYRSHIRE 8,689                8,689               
WVIEW WARD 7C FORENSIC REHAB N 11,781        98,298              110,079           
DAY ACTIVITIES TEAM 227             227                  
INTENSIVE COMMUNITY NURSING TEAM 38,656        38,656             
ADULT MENTAL HEALTH LIASION TEAM 2,554          2,554               
PCMHT NORTH 3,802          3,802               
WVIEW WARD 6 LOW SECURE NRS 65,744        199,697            265,441           
WARRIX AVE 18,203        32,155              50,358             
ACTION 15 - ADULT LIAISON 26,064        26,064             
NORTH CORE SLT PAEDS -                   
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY 2,062          2,062               
ICFN - COMMUNITY PHLEBOTOMY 8,986                8,986               
WVIEW WARD 7A LD A+T NRS 21,097        751,908            4,525                 20,316            797,846           
WVIEW WARD 9 ACUTE MH NRS 34,318        172,839            379                 207,536           
WVIEW WARD 11 ACUTE MH NRS 57,842        213,211            257                 271,310           
ADULT EAST 62,786                62,786             
ADULT SOUTH 77,070                111,301              188,370           
1,186,789         4,214,745         20,492               22,476            139,856              111,301              5,695,659     
2) SOCIAL CARE Month 10
Agency Cost
Montrose House 505,485           
Children Acm - Irvine 1,188               
Mh Acm 129,421           
Ld Acm 35,404             
TOTAL 671,498           
Bank Agency