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2025-26 Budget Monitoring Report Mth6v1 - final

North Ayrshire Council · 13 November 2025
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Integration Joint Board
13th November 2025
Subject: 2025-26 – Month 6 Financial Performance 
Purpose: To provide an overview of the IJB’s financial performance as at
Month 6 (September). 
Recommendation: It is recommended that the IJB: 
(a) notes the overall integrated financial performance report for
the financial year 2025-26 and the current overall projected year-
end overspend of £4.957m reducing to £1.604m after planned
recovery actions;
(b) notes the progress with delivery of agreed savings;
(c) approves the actions which are being taken to progress
financial recovery and that an updated recovery plan will be
presented to the next IJB; and
(d) notes the remaining financial risks for 2025-26. 
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

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relevant budget holders and services.   It should be noted that, although this report
refers to the position at the end of September 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 £4.957m (1.5%) reduced to
£1.604m through already identified financial recovery actions. There is an increasing
risk to achieving financial balance during 2025-26, the projected outturn position is
summarised below with the residual risk following already identified financial
improvement actions: 
TOTAL Health/  
NHS AA
Social
Care/NAC
Projected Overspend @ mth6 4.957 1.245 3.712
Financial Recovery Plan Projections (3.353) (1.244) (2.109)
Residual Risk 1.604 0.001 1.603 
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 projection assumes all mitigations and controls established in 2024-25 continue
throughout 2025-26 as it is recognised that the same uncertainty and risks remain
into 2025-26 and there needs to be tight grip and control over expenditure overall. 
1.3 The movement in the projected outturn position for the 2025-26 financial year is
illustrated in the graph below:

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This illustrates the movement in the gross and net projected overspend and the
residual overspend or risk split between NHS and LA funding partners. 
1.4  From the core projections, overall, the main areas of pressure are: care at home,
residential placements for children, physical 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 from Period 4 to Period 6 are: 
• Updated assessment of the vacancy savings projection with lower level than
anticipated for social care, primarily due to a number of posts which have been
removed as recurring savings.
• Increase in Learning Disability care packages due to a small number of high
cost packages.
• Increase in supplementary staffing in Woodland View due to a short term IPC
incident and associated staff cover costs.
• Under-recovery of anticipated income following new charging policy. 
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 Since the setting of the budget in March 2025 the 2025/26 financial position has been
adversely impacted by the below factors out-with the control of the IJB. 
• National Care Home Contract (NCHC) – the recent increase to the NCHC rate
to reflect the impact of the nursing pay award resulted in an additional
unfunded cost of £0.175m.
• NHS Board allocation for the Employers National Insurance increase
confirmed at 60% of funding – full year impact £0.664m 
• The current allocation 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 current funding
allocated is £0.659m, the cost of covering all reduced hours is £1.497m,
currently calculating actual cover costs and will request NHS AA review
funding allocation.  This request will be informed by information collated from
services on the actual impact and cost.

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• Pay settlements for both NHS and Local Government staff have been agreed
for 2025/26.  The NHS element has been funded, and the current assumption
is that the shortfall between budget planning assumptions and actual
settlements will be fully funded for Local Government staff. 
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 6 
At month 6 against the full-year budget of £340.767m there is a projected year-end
overspend of £4.957m (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
of a projected overspend of £3.924m in social care services and a projected
overspend of £1.245m 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. 
Appendix F provides information on the costs of bank and agency staff. 
2.3 Health and Community Care Services 
Against the full-year budget of £100.020m there is a projected overspend of £4.167m
(4.2%) which is a favourable movement of £0.1638m and the main variances are: 
a) Care home placements – net projected overspend of £0.565m (£0.010m
favourable). This includes an overspend on placements of £1.115m (£0.160m
favourable) which includes a provision for an average of 7 interim beds and
reflects the recent increase to the NCHC to reflect the impact of the nursing pay
award resulted in an additional unfunded cost of £0.175m.   
The budgeted number of permanent placements was 765 and at month 6 there
were 807 placements resulting in a projected overspend of £1.140m. 
The plan to manage down the number of permanent placements to reach the
target is challenging due to the need to respond to referrals 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 and
gross funded placements which is projected to be £0.550m over recovered

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(£0.150m adverse). 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 and access to the funds or estate of service users.
b) Care at home is projected to be £1.689m overspent (£0.017m adverse). The
position reflects the cost of meeting the significant demand and level of provision
for care at home support.   
c) Physical Disability Services – projected overspend of £0.486m (£0.057m
adverse) split as follows: £0.958m over in residential placements, £0.296m under
in direct payments and £0.176m under in community care packages.   
d) Integrated Island Services is projected to overspend by £0.507m (£0.196m
adverse).  The most significant variance is a projected overspend at Montrose
House of £0.283m which relates to the net overspend on agency staff (i.e. net of
underspend on employee costs) and overspends across property, continence and
medical supplies, admin and transport.   One of the main adverse movements
relates to an income under recovery at Montrose House and a write off of aged
debt. The Arran Patient Transfer contract is projected to overspend by £0.040m. 
e) Specialist Rehab wards – projected overspend of £0.175m (£0.015m favourable)
(Redburn ward £0.203m overspend and Douglas Grant £0.028m 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 £0.774m (£0.009m favourable). The
overspend is due to increased use of supplementary staffing.   All rehabilitation
wards are operating at 100% occupancy supporting a high level of patient
needs/complexity, which places pressure on staffing levels and the use of bank
and agency staff to support additional patient observations.   The senior manager
has developed an action plan which will reduce this overspend and the reduction
is reflected in the recovery plan. 
2.4 Mental Health Services 
Against the full-year budget of £118.496m there is a projected overspend of £1.218m
(1%) which is an adverse movement of £0.613m 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 £1.036m (£0.416m
adverse).  The adverse movement is mainly due to one new high-cost care
LD package £0.126m, a projected under recovery of income £0.153m and an
adverse movement in children with a disability packages of £0.076m. 
• Community Mental Health services are projected to underspend by £0.060m
(£0.094m adverse movement).  The adverse movement is mainly due to an

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adverse movement of £0.041m in residential packages.  The main reason for
underspend in community packages is the availability and capacity of adult
community providers to deliver new packages of care.
• There is a projected underspend of £0.353m in relation to the cost of Hospital
Based Complex Continuing Care (HBCCC), this reflects the impact of change
in provision for these services.  There were plans to reinvest this in the service,
but these plans are on hold as holding the funding was agreed as part of the
recovery plan at month 3. 
• The Lead Partnership for Mental Health is projected to be £0.687m overspent
(£0.201m adverse) and the main variances are as follows: 
• Adult Inpatients – projected overspend by £0.954m (£0.315m adverse)
due to very high levels of continuous intervention which require
additional supplementary staff and enhanced observations (1:1 and
2:1) and use of bank staff. The month 5 and 6 costs were materially
higher than the month 1 – 4 average, this was due to high levels of staff
cover required to respond to an IPC incident at Woodland View.  The
projection assumes that £0.338m of costs are recharged to another
HSCP on a cost basis for an outwith authority placements which has
incurred additional costs in relation to usage of supplementary staffing
due to sustained enhanced observations. 
• The UNPACS (Unplanned Activities) budget – projected overspend of
£1.054m (£0.299m favourable) based on current placements. Since
month 4 there has been the transfer of two packages.  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. Part of the
additional control measures agreed in month 3 was to expand the high-
cost care package review group to include all UNPACS placement
requests, the projected position includes provision for any new
placements approved.

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• Learning Disability Services – projected to overspend by £0.349m
(£0.293m adverse).  This adverse movement relates to the delay in
achieving the saving from Ward 7A.  Whilst the ward closed there are
still legacy costs as the staff are still being redeployed.
• Elderly Inpatients – projected overspend of £0.117m (£0.016m
favourable) 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 £0.135m (£0.008m
adverse movement) due to the staffing level being higher than the
funding allocation.  This is being considered alongside the overall
resource allocation. 
• Enhanced Mental Health Outcome Framework (EMHOF) – projected
underspend of £0.624m (no movement).  There was £0.624m of
reserves held for EMHOF and the recovery plan approved the draw
down of these reserves which is the reason for the favourable
movement.   
• Psychiatry – is projected to overspend by £0.321m (£0.029m adverse)
mainly due to junior doctor costs. A mitigation plan is being developed
and the rota for junior doctors is being reviewed. 
• MH Pharmacy – is projected to overspend by £0.156m (£0.120m
adverse). The overspend is less than projected due to a prior year
rebate.  Prior to this rebate there was an overspend due to increased
demand and cost of medicines, and particularly the cost of Buvidal. 
This position is after investing £0.510m on a Pan Ayrshire basis
(£0.170m per HSCP). 
• Action 15 – is projected to underspend of £0.279m (£0.050m
favourable). There was £0.487m of reserves held for Action 15 and the
recovery plan approved the draw down of these reserves which is the
reason for the underspend.  The projected underspend is after
considering the legacy costs from the 2024/25 review of funding.   
 Innovation Fund – projected underspend of £0.021m (£0.004m
adverse movement) assuming that the posts to be redeployed as part
of the EMHOF review are actioned. 
• 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 £0.972m

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(favourable movement of £0.444m) in 2025-26.  Further information is
included in the table below: 
Vacancy Savings Target (£1.160m)
Projected to March 2026 £2.132m
Over/(Under) Achievement £0.972m
2.5 Children and Justice Services 
Against the full-year budget of £42.224m there is a projected overspend of £1.636m
(3.9%) which is an adverse movement of £0.030m and the main variances are: 
a) Care Experienced Children and Young People is projected to overspend by
£1.996m (£0.081m adverse).  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: 
• The children’s residential placements are projected to overspend by £2.714m
(£0.024m adverse) based 33 placements in month 6. This demonstrates an
increase of 4 places since the start of the financial year. There are several
factors leading to this challenging position: 
o 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.
o There remains an acute shortage of foster carers leading to residential
care being necessary in emergency placement situations. 
o 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.
o A number of young people in residential care have requested Continuing
Care, whereby a young person can remain in their placement until age
21.
o 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. 
o Contractual inflation has still to be agreed for most placements and it is
likely that this will increase the projected costs of residential places which
is outwith the control of the service.
o 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.

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• Looked After and Accommodated Children (fostering, adoption, kinship etc)
is projected to be £0.937m (£0.032m favourable) underspent. 
• Residential respite – placements are overspent by £0.071m (£0.002m fav
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 £0.170m (£0.099m adverse
movement), largely due to staffing levels in the children’s houses and
regrading of posts. 
• Care Leavers – projected underspend of £0.058m (£0.013m adverse
movement) in rent costs. 
• Section 29 Payments (Throughcare Team) are projected to overspend by
£0.049m (£0.015m favourable movement). 
b) Head of Service – is projected to underspend by £0.562m (£0.006m adverse).
This consists of a projected overspend of £0.158m in relation to the previous staff
reconfiguration saving in the children’s houses which was not achieved in 23-24
or 24-25 and this is offset by the grant funding in relation to Unaccompanied
Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC), which is projected to amount to £0.777m and
which contributes to costs incurred across a number of C&F service areas.   
c) C&F Health Team – is projected to overspend by £0.082m (£0.062m favourable)
mainly in relation to the Band 6 to 7 regrade for Health Visitors and the
progression of posts up the Band 7 scale.  Part of this recurring cost was
incorporated into budget pressures for 2025/26. The favourable movement is due
to ongoing work by the senior manager to reduce the overspend. 
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 underspend by £0.185m (£0.019m adverse). One contract has
ceased at the end of June and there are savings against other areas.  There is also
an over-recovery of income in Learning and Development for social work student
placements.

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2.8 MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT 
Management and Support Services are projected to underspend by £1.685m
(£0.659m favourable) and the main areas of variance are: 
• There is projected slippage on the LD and MH transition funding of £0.473m
(£0.210m favourable) due to delays in children transitioning into adult
services. 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.   
• There is also a balance of overachieved savings of £0.137m (£0.076m
favourable) as a result of the 25/26 budget decision. 
• NHS shortfall in savings of £0.406m which is not coded to specific areas and
held centrally until recurring savings can be identified.
• The funding for the Reduced Working Week (non-Lead Partnership element)
is coded to Management and Support pending final confirming of the
allocation.  It is projected to underspend by £0.293m as the overspends in
relation to these costs are shown on other lines outwith Management and
Support. 
• An over-recovery of payroll turnover of £0.600m (£0.500m adverse) for social
care services and an over-recovery of £0.308m (£0.006m favourable) 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: 
Social Care Health
Vacancy Savings Target (£3.400m) (£1.567m)
Projected to be achieved by March
2026
£4.000m £1.877m
Over/(Under) Achievement £0.600m £0.308m  
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. 
For 2025/26 there will be a further recruitment delay with vacancy scrutiny approved
vacancies being held for four weeks before they are advertised to create more payroll

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turnover.  This will be for all vacancies except clinical or registered services
vacancies or those which will incur cover costs. 
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 
The approved 2025-26 budget included £4.019m of savings. 
BRAG Status Position at
Budget Approval
£m
Position at
Month 6
£m
Red - -
Amber 2.984  2.027
Green 1.035 0.200
Blue - 1.792
TOTAL 4.019 4.019   
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. 
Reductions Requiring Approval: 
Ref Description  Amount (£000)
1 North MDT funding to Arran Medical Group (Virement 11) (0.043)
2 Budget transferred to Capital for INV-3395435821 (0.006) 
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.

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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 6 the
MH lead partnership is projected to overspend by £0.687m (£0.225m NRAC share
for East and £0.196m for South). 
South HSCP (month 6 info) – projected overspend of £0.282m (£0.148m adverse)
of which £0.104m (£0.054m adverse) will be allocated to North. The variance is
mainly due to an overspend of £0.131m in the community store.  This includes the
costs of replacing mattresses, repairs and maintenance contract and equipment
costs. The adverse movement is due to the purchase of additional mattresses when
the wash bay was temporarily closed, and this impacted on the recycling of
mattresses. There is also a projected overspend of £0.087m in the Family Nurse
Partnership as the SG funding was based on the mid-point of the salary scale and all
post are now at the top point of the scale.  This will be a pressure in 2026/27. 
East HSCP (month 6 info) - projected overspend of £0.104m (£0.326m favourable)
of which £0.038m will be allocated to North - £0.121m favourable movement). The
main variances are: 
Allied Health Professions (Lead Partnership)
There is a projected underspend of £0.420m on AHPs services which mainly relates
to staffing savings. An increase in overall supplies expenditure has seen a small
adverse movement from month 4 projected underspend £0.445m. 
Primary Care and Out of Hours Services (Lead Partnership) 
The Primary Care and Out of Hours Services £139.701m budget is projected to
overspend by £0.416m, which is a small favourable movement of £0.206m from
month 4. 
There are projected additional costs within Primary Care Contracting and Support
£0.402m (£0.493m overspend month 4), due to a number of variances, including new
Office 365 licence costs, as well as additional spend related to the GP’s Sub-
Committee and staffing costs. Primary Medical Services are projected to overspend
by £0.643m (£0.686m at month 4), largely due to increased pension and sickness
cover costs. Primary Medical Services payments also show an overspend and IT
continues to overspend. These projected additional costs are being partially offset by
a projected underspend £0.309m (£0.170m at month 4) against Ayrshire Urgent Care
Services based on average of month 1 to 6 expenditure and cross charges based on
2024/25 trends (and is after building-in an allowance for public holiday cover in the
remainder of the financial year). Funding has been allocated to partially offset Urgent
Care Pathway costs £0.823m (projected to outturn £0.248m over allocated funding).
Funding has also been allocated to Covid-19 Therapeutics of £0.274m, with costs
projected at £0.229m. 
There is a projected underspend of £0.555m (£0.304m at month 4) in Dental services
that reflects that staffing numbers are running at less than establishment, alongside

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reduced equipment costs. The financial recovery plan includes anticipated reduced
spend on Dental equipment £0.035m. 
Prison and Police Healthcare (Lead Partnership)
The projected overspend of £0.013m at month 6 (£0.106m overspend month 4) is
largely due to reduced staffing costs. Due to extended periods of vacancy, there has
been a favourable movement of £0.119m, however this is partially offset by additional
prescribing costs. Prison prescribing was highlighted as a budget pressure as part of
the 2025/26 budget. Both East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire IJBs have approved
additional funding to offset this pressure however North Ayrshire IJB did not provide
for this in their approved budget. The additional funding has not been allocated
against the prescribing budget at this stage, with further pan-Ayrshire discussions to
be undertaken to determine how to account for this in the current financial year and
going forward. It is possible that the Prison and Police Healthcare projected
overspend highlighted in this report can be reduced as a consequence of this work. 
Other Services (Lead Partnership)
The £0.095m projected overspend (£0.146m overspend month 4) is due to increased
Area Wide Evening Services and Palliative Care Services costs. This is mainly due
to additional staffing costs including high use of bank staff to meet service demands
which are expected to reduce when vacancies are filled. As part of the recovery plan,
recovery actions will be undertaken to reduce costs by an estimated £0.069m in the
remainder of the financial year within Area Wide Evening Services: 
• Caseload and rota review to ensure prioritisation of essential criteria for
overnight interventions.
• Reviewing skills mix and reducing teams from eight to seven.
• Reducing bank usage by ensuring optimum recruitment to vacancies and
maximising attendance at work 
Palliative Care Services budgets continue to be closely monitored and reviewed;
however increased costs largely reflect demand for provision of services. This
pressure will require to be considered on a pan-Ayrshire basis, as part of the 2026/27
budget-setting process. Alongside financial recovery plan actions, it is anticipated
that the prison prescribing pressure can be considered through forthcoming pan-
Ayrshire discussions. 
East Ayrshire Financial Recovery Plan (approved on 29th October 2025) 
A financial recovery plan will be presented to the IJB on 29 October 2025 for
consideration and approval (and presented to North and South Ayrshire IJBs for
approval).  The initial hosted services financial recovery plan assumes that costs can
be contained at month 6 projected outturn position levels overall, with specific
savings highlighted in the table below to achieve overall financial balance in 2025/26.

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Service Division
Proposed Saving 
2025/26  
£m
Primary Care – Dental equipment balance (revenue) 0.035
Area Wide Evening Services – Staff Cost Reductions 0.069 
TOTAL  0.104 
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 2024/25 prices. The 2025/26 actual usage information is not
known until later in the year.   
IJB
Baseline at
2024/25
prices     
(£)
East 31.870
North 39.966
South 34.488
Total 106.324 
The annual budget for Acute Services is £488.0million.  The directorate is overspent
by £17.2 million after 6 months including legacy CRES. 
This was caused by overspends on medical and nursing staff, together non pay
overspends on equipment and supplies. These are required due to the level of
operational pressure experienced. Unfunded wards contributed an overspend
of £3.6m after 6 months. 
Within the overall £17.2 million overspend Medicine are over by £6.8 million,
Emergency Care by £5.4 million, Surgery by £1.9 million, Labs and Diagnostics by
£1.8 million and Women and Children by £1.2 million. Legacy CRES and
underspends on other budgets make up the difference.

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There is a material underlying deficit caused by:
• 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.  
In respect of Lead Partnership Services, the 3 Chief Officers and CFOs have met to
consider improvements in the reporting and visibility of financial and operational
performance for those services which we lead or are led by another HSCP.  Actions
have been agreed to develop more regular shared information to be shared across
all 3 IJBs with an intention to incorporate this further detail into future financial
monitoring reports during 2025/26.    
2.12 FINANCIAL RISKS 
There are a number of financial risk areas that impact or may impact on the financial
position. 
• Current overspend areas, especially in low volume / high-cost services e.g.
Children’s residential placements, UNPACs, and supplementary staffing
across community, mental health and learning disability wards.
• Growing demand for services.
• Staff recruitment and retention challenges across a number of service areas.
• The expectation that performance will continue to be maintained or improved
despite the significant resource challenges.
• Ongoing delivery costs of Scottish Government policy directives, particularly
where these are not fully funded or inflation proofed.
• Pay settlements for both NHS and Local Government staff have been agreed
for 2025/26.  The NHS element has been funded, and the current assumption
is that the shortfall between budget planning assumptions and actual
settlements will be fully funded for Local Government staff.
• Unearmarked reserves are depleted, there is no scope to absorb in-year
variances, with any overspends requiring additional funding from partners.
• The ongoing review of the Integration Schemes, where there is a focus on
financial arrangements and risk share. 
• The wider system financial challenges and impact across the whole system,
for example the financial position of NHS AA and the decisions taken to
reduce the Board’s deficit may have impacts on other parts of the health and
care system.

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• Removal of brokerage for NHS Boards, NHS AA have been asked by Scottish
Government to deliver further financial improvement beyond their Board
approved financial plan. 
• The overall sustainability of commissioned care providers, with eNICs
compounding historic challenges re financial sustainability, there is a
heightened risk of provider failure leading to handing back of care and
contracts.
• The ongoing ability to source packages of care for service users.
• Progress with the work to develop set aside arrangements and the risk
sharing arrangements agreed as part of this.
• The recurring underlying levels of overspend which may impact on the
Partnership’s ability to continue to sustain service levels in the future.
• 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. 
• Scot Excel inflationary increases for children’s services have been
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.
• Risk related to NHS Reform investment being allocated by Scottish
Government on a payment by results basis and in arrears.
• Local Government Settlement and Distribution Group (SDG) – The SDG
periodically review existing distributions to ensure that they remain fit for
purpose. The impact of this in future years is not yet known but it is a
significant quantum of the overall funding. 
These risks will continue to be monitored during 2025/26. 
2.13 RESERVES 
The IJB opening reserves position, subject to completion of the 24/25 audit, is
summarised in the table below. 
General Fund
Reserve Earmarked Reserves
Total 
Unearmarked  External
Funding                      HSCP 
£m  £m £m £m
Balance – 1 April 2025 -  2.381 0.780 3.161
Anticipated Drawdown -  (2.381) (0.780) (3.161)
Balance – 31 March 2026 -  - - -
The £0.780m HSCP earmarked reserve relates to the Service Redesign and Change
Fund which is fully committed in 2025/26. 
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 2025/26 on 20th March 2025. This did not include
any draw on reserves but did include the approval of £4.019m of savings to achieve
financial balance. Services will continue to work towards implementing the recovery
plan to deliver cost reduction targets while carefully managing the level of risk. This
will include the preparation of equality impact assessments.
The management actions and governance framework outlined below which were
agreed in 2024/25 will continue throughout 2025/26: 
MANAGEMENT ACTIONS/CONTROLS AGREED IN 2024/25 
• 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. 
GOVERNANCE MEASURES AGREED IN 2024/25 
• Establishment a ‘Finance Working Group’, chaired by the IJB Chair or Vice
Chair. The Director and Heads of Service are members of the group. It meets
monthly to facilitate increased oversight and scrutiny of the financial position
and transformation programme as well as detailed budget planning for future
financial years. 
• 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.   
MANAGEMENT ACTIONS/CONTROLS AGREED IN 2025/26 (AUGUST 2025 and
SEPTEMBER 2025) 
• Recruitment delay – there will be a recruitment drag with vacancy scrutiny
approved vacancies being held for four weeks before they are advertised to

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create more payroll turnover.  This will be for all vacancies except clinical or
registered services vacancies or those which will incur cover costs.
• High-cost care package group – the remit of this group will be expanded to
include care packages for children with a disability and all UNPACs placement
requests.
• Oversight group for looked after and accommodated children in residential
care – this group meets fortnightly to actively review all placements.
• The senior managers for the main areas of overspend have been tasked with
preparing an SBAR reports to be considered at the PSMT.  This will cover
current action being taken to reduce the overspend and future planned action. 
This will inform the update to the month 6 recovery plan.  These actions will
be tracked each reporting period and if progress is not being made an update
will be made to the finance working group and IJB.
• The Director and Chief Finance Officer have started a rolling programme of
one-to-one meetings with individual budget holders across the HSCP to
consider opportunities for cost reduction, service change and any spend to
save propositions – to support the development of the 2026/27 budget but
also to identify further cost reductions for the current financial year. 
RECOVERY ACTIONS – MONTH 6 UPDATE
• The updated recovery action is outlined in Appendix E.  This includes the
proposals agreed at month 3 and 4 and updated progress at month 6 and any
changes to target reductions.  The actions are a mix of cost reduction targets
across various services and a drawdown of reserves. At month 3 the residual
risk position was: 
TOTAL Health/
NHS AA
Social
Care/NAC
Projected Overspend @ mth3 5.187 2.271 2.916
Financial Recovery Plan Projections (4.012) (1.752) (2.260)
Residual Risk 1.175 0.519 0.656 
• At month 4 this deteriorated to: 
TOTAL Health/  
NHS AA
Social
Care/NAC
Projected Overspend @ mth4 5.259 2.051 3.208
Financial Recovery Plan Projections (3.526) (1.275) (2.251)
Residual Risk 1.733 0.776 0.957 
• At month 6 this has deteriorated to: 
TOTAL Health/  
NHS AA
Social
Care/NAC
Projected Overspend @ mth6 4.957 1.245 3.712
Financial Recovery Plan Projections (3.353) (1.244) (2.109)
Residual Risk 1.604 0.001 1.603

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• This plan will be reviewed each month and further recovery actions will be
presented to the IJB for approval.  Services are working on further recovery
actions to come to IJB in December – these will impact further on waits and
service performance. 
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 2025-26 from within the available
resource, 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 will be reported to the IJB throughout 2025-
26. 
4. IMPLICATIONS 
4.1 Financial
The outturn is an overall year-end overspend of £4.957m (1.5%) prior to recovery
action. The report outlines the main variances for individual services.  The IJB
unearmarked reserve balance is zero. This current position poses a financial risk to
North Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire and Arran. 
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. 
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.

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The ‘financial viability of the HSCP’ risk on our strategic risk register. 
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 2025-26 and the increased focus required on financial
rather than service improvement. This will be kept under close scrutiny throughout
2025-26. 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. 
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, Chief Finance Officer [eleanorcurrie@north-ayrshire.gov.uk]

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PUBLIC INFORMATION
2025-26 Budget Monitoring Report–Objective Summary as at 30th September 2025                                                                 Appendix A                                 
Budget Outturn
Projected 
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Outturn
Projected 
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
Budget Outturn
Projected 
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
COMMUNITY CARE AND HEALTH 79,033 81,988 2,955 20,987 22,199 1,212 100,020 104,187 4,167 4,330 (163)
: Locality Services 32,974 33,962 988 5,900 5,899 (1) 38,874 39,861 987 1,206 (219)
: Community Care Service Delivery 41,771 43,382 1,611 0 41,771 43,382 1,611 1,745 (134)
: Rehabilitation and Reablement 2,136 2,176 40 0 2,136 2,176 40 10 30
: Long Term Conditions 896 946 50 10,633 11,609 976 11,529 12,555 1,026 1,063 (37)
: Community Link Workers 374 370 (4) 0 0 0 374 370 (4) (5) 1
: Integrated Island Services 882 1,152 270 4,454 4,691 237 5,336 5,843 507 311 196
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 41,075 41,960 885 77,421 77,754 333 118,496 119,714 1,218 605 613
: Learning Disabilities 31,938 32,974 1,036 738 738 0 32,676 33,712 1,036 620 416
: Community Mental Health 7,112 6,955 (157) 1,812 1,812 0 8,924 8,767 (157) (154) (3)
: Addictions 2,025 2,031 6 1,901 1,900 (1) 3,926 3,931 5 7 (2)
: HBCCC 0 0 0 353 0 (353) 353 0 (353) (353) 0
: Lead Partnership Mental Health NHS Area Wide 0 0 0 72,617 73,304 687 72,617 73,304 687 485 202
CHILDREN & JUSTICE SERVICES 36,349 37,921 1,572 5,875 5,939 64 42,224 43,860 1,636 1,606 30
: Irvine, Kilwinning and Three Towns 3,259 3,344 85 0 0 0 3,259 3,344 85 62 23
: Garnock Valley, North Coast and Arran 3,619 3,687 68 0 0 0 3,619 3,687 68 57 11
:Intervention Services 1,827 1,836 9 0 0 0 1,827 1,836 9 5 4
: Care Experienced Children & Young people 22,749 24,745 1,996 0 0 0 22,749 24,745 1,996 1,915 81
: Head of Service - Children & Families 1,363 801 (562) 0 0 0 1,363 801 (562) (567) 5
: Justice Services 3,101 3,101 0 0 0 0 3,101 3,101 0 0 0
: C&F Health Team 431 407 (24) 4,995 5,101 106 5,426 5,508 82 118 (36)
: Lead Partnership NHS Children's Services 0 0 0 880 838 (42) 880 838 (42) 16 (58)
CHIEF SOCIAL WORK OFFICER 1,983 1,798 (185) 0 0 0 1,983 1,798 (185) (204) 19
PRIMARY CARE 0 0 0 54,721 54,805 84 54,721 54,805 84 36 48
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 0 11,504 11,505 1 11,504 11,505 1 1 0
MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT COSTS 8,172 6,657 (1,515) 3,647 3,477 (170) 11,819 10,134 (1,685) (1,026) (659)
OUTTURN ON A MANAGED BASIS 166,612 170,324 3,712 174,155 175,679 1,524 340,767 346,003 5,236 5,348 (112)
Return Hosted Over/Underspends to East 0 0 0 0 (225) (225) 0 (225) (225) (159) (66)
Return Hosted Over/Underspends to South 0 0 0 0 (196) (196) 0 (196) (196) (139) (57)
Receive Hosted Over/Underspends South 0 0 0 0 104 104 0 104 104 50 54
Receive Hosted Over/Underspends East 0 0 0 0 38 38 0 38 38 159 (121)
OUTTURN ON AN IJB BASIS 166,612 170,324 3,712 174,155 175,400 1,245 340,767 345,724 4,957 5,259 (302)
Over/
(Under)
Spend
Variance at
Period 4
Movement in  
variance
from Period
4
TOTAL
Partnership Budget - Objective Summary
Council Health
2025/26 Budget

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2025-26 Savings Tracker          Appendix B 
Social Care:
Ref Description
Deliverability
Status at budget
setting
Deliverability             
Month 6
2025/26 Saving
Previously Agreed Savings (Full year impact)
1 Review of Day Care provision Green Blue 0.100
2 Service redesign  (CAAST Team and Corporate
Parenting team)
Green Blue 0.034
Adjustments
3 Payroll Turnover Green Blue 0.099
Mental Health
4 LD Responder Service Amber Amber 0.150
Children, Families & Criminal Justice
5 Brighter Pathways Amber Amber 1.000
Community Care & Health
6 Review of Day Care provision Amber Blue 0.107
7 Care at Home Amber Blue 0.500
8 Care Package Review (all services) Amber Green 0.200
9 Deletion of vacant posts Green Blue 0.056
10 Increase to charging Green Amber 0.186
11 Admin Post Savings Green Blue 0.114
12 Financial Inclusion Green Blue 0.357
TOTAL SOCIAL CARE SAVINGS 2.903
Cross Service

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Health:   
Ref Description
Deliverability
Status at
budget
setting
Deliverability             
Month 6 
2025/26
Saving 
Adjustments      
13 Increase recharge to East Ayrshire for beds at
Woodland View
Green Blue 0.010 
14 Payroll Turnover Green Blue 0.079 
Other Savings      
15 Admin Savings Amber Blue 0.186 
16 Trindlemoss House - move to social care model Amber Amber 0.250 
17 EICT/Rehab Amber Blue 0.150 
18 Community MH/Wellbeing Review Amber Amber 0.100 
19 Ward 7A - Woodland View Amber Amber 0.341 
TOTAL HEALTH SAVINGS   1.116 
TOTAL NORTH HSCP SAVINGS   4.019

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2025-26 Budget Reconciliation               Appendix C 
COUNCIL Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Initial Approved Budget 137.739
Adjustments to baseline 0.014
Revised Budget 137.753
Resource Transfer 25/26 1-3 25.504
Additional Funding - 24/25 Adult Social Care RLW 1-3 P 0.073
Additional Funding  RLW 1-3 P 0.126
Additional Funding - Money Smart 1-3 P 0.094
ICT Transfers 1-3 P (0.005)
Additional Funding - Whole Family Wellbeing Funds 1-3 T 0.179
CJSW - S27 1-3 P 3.280
Development of People working in Childrens SW 1-3 P (0.390)
Roundings 3 (0.002)
166.612Social Care Budget Reported at Month 4
HEALTH Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Initial Budget exc set aside 161.934
Month 10-12 Adjustments and adjusting for the
full year impact of part years amounts and
temporary funding.
8.532
Revised Budget 170.466
Resource Transfer 24/25 24.640
Resource Transfer 25/26 (25.504)
NORTH NATIONAL INS 25-26 AMBUS 1 0.997
PRESCRIBING 25-26 AMBUSH 1 2.754
PRESCRIBING CRES 25-26 AMBUSH 1 (0.715)
Training Grade Adj - April 1 (0.058)
Training Grade Rates Adj - April 1 0.030
MH: Anticipate PDS Dementia (North) 25/26 1 0.094
MH: Anticipate Delivery of Veteran Specific 25/26 1 0.105
Anticipated RWW from SG 1 0.659
Anticipate 20% Tranche 2 ADP 1 0.174

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HEALTH Period Permanent or
Temporary £'m
Training Grade Adj - May 2 (0.013)
Bwp 25-26 East Chest Heart Stroke 2 0.001
Bwp 25-26 East Nest Expansion 2 0.023
Bwp 25-26 East - Sds Advice Service 2 0.013
Bwp 25-26 East Sub Prescribing 2 0.170
25-26 South Budget Paper - North Substitute Prescribing 2 0.170
25-26 South Budget Paper - Pan Ayrshire Chest Heart
And Stroke 2 0.001
25-26 North Budget Paper - Pan Ayrshire (vision
Support Service 2 (0.005)
25-26 North Budget Paper - Pan Ayrshire
(communitystore) 2 (0.155)
HD52: EARLY INTERVENTION PSYCHOSIS 3 0.100
25-26 Pay Award Increase North 3 1.179
Training Grade Adjustment (Dean Funding) 4 0.011
Medical Pay Award - Senior Medical - Additional 1% 4 0.086
Medical Pay Award - Specialty Doctors - Additional 1% 4 0.006
Virement to Medical Directorate from Mental Health
Admin 4 (0.028)
Transfer MAT Standards Psychiatrist 0.2 WTE 4 0.029
Primary Care Prescribing Tariff Reduction 4 (0.556)
BBV transfer from Public Health 4 0.269
Training Grade Adjustment (Dean Funding) - August 5 0.129
Budget transferred to Capital for INV-3395435821 5 (0.006)
Transfer from South - ANP contribution 5 0.030
Primary Care Prescribing Budgets reworked 5 0.130
HD157 3% pay award ADP North 5 0.057
North MDT funding to Arran Medical Group (Virement 11) 5 (0.043)
Training Grade Adjustment (Dean Funding) - September 6 0.018
ANTICIPATED BUDGETS INCL HERE (NOT IN LEDGER) 6 (1.104)
Roundings 0.001
174.155
TOTAL COMBINED BUDGET 340.767
Health Budget Reported at Month 6

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25-26 IJB Reserves Position      Appendix D 
Area of Reserves
Balance
at 31
March
2025
Earmarked Funds £
: Alcohol & Drug Partnership 353           
: Mental Health Action 15 135           
: Primary Care Improvement Fund 46              
: Service Redesign / Challenge Fund 780           
: Family Wellbeing Fund 934           
: Breastfeeding Network 36              
: MH Recovery and Renewal /Enhanced MH
Outcome Framework 365           
: Early Intervention in Psychosis 92              
: LD funding 82              
: Donation (Police Scotland) 1                 
: Primary Care Improvement Fund IP 303           
: GP Premises Improvements - tranches 1 and 2 3                 
: Dental Practice Improvement 29              
: Appropriate Adult 2                 
Total Earmarked 3,161

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Financial Recovery Action Plan          Appendix E 
£m
Projected Overspend at Month 6 4,957
SERVICE AREA
Target at
Month 6
Achieved
at Month 6
Still to be
achieved
Target set                 
(IJB Date) Comment
a) Care home placements (568) (59) (509) August 2025 -
month 3 report
This will bring the overall budget for
placements and charging order income online. 
b) Physical Disability Services (res,
community and DPs)
0 0 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
Some PD residential packages £508K (prev
£575K) have moved to the older people Care
Home placements budget.  The older people
placements will need to manage  this transfer
within the existing budget.
c) Specialist Rehab wards (75) (39) (36) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Based on planned action developed by the
senior manager.
d) Wards 1 and 2 (275) (53) (222) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Based on planned action developed by the
senior manager.
e) Care at Home (300) 0 (300) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Reflects the potential reduction to costs as an
impact of the SG investment in unscheduled
care
TOTAL (1,218) (151) (1,067)
Mental Health Services
Revised
Target at
Month 6
Achieved
at Month 6
Still to be
achieved
Target set                 
(IJB Date) Comment
a) Learning Disabilities 0 0 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
b) Community Mental Health services 0 0 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
c) Lead Partnership for Mental Health :
- Adult Inpatients (150) 0 (150) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Inpatient Review being undertaken
- Elderly Inpatients (150) (66) (84) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Inpatient Review being undertaken 
-  Psychiatry (150) 0 (150) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Junior doctor rota still to be revised.
- Action 15 Reserves (486) (486) 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
Draw down of the full pan Ayrshire reserve -
agreed with the CFOs at East and South 
- Enhanced MH Outcome Framework
Reserves
(624) (624) 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
Draw down of the full pan Ayrshire reserve -
agreed with the CFOs at East and South
NORTH AYRSHIRE ELEMENT  38.65% (603) (455) (148) August 2025 -
month 3 report
TOTAL (603) (455) (148)
No cost reduction proposed but the service
need to maintain the current position.  All new
placements need to be offset by discharges or
reductions from care package reviews.

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SERVICE AREA
Revised
Target at
Month 6
Achieved
at Month 6
Still to be
achieved
Target set                 
(IJB Date) Comment
Children and Justice Services Target set                 
(IJB Date) Comment
a) Residential Placements (1,000) 0 (1,000) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Based on some placements moving to
tenancies and other placements moving from
external to in-house provision.
TOTAL (1,000) 0 (1,000)
Revised
Target at
Month 6
Achieved
at Month 6
Still to be
achieved
Target set                 
(IJB Date) Comment
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 0 0 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
No cost reduction proposed but the service
need to maintain the current position.
CHIEF SOCIAL WORK OFFICER 0 0 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
No cost reduction proposed but the service
need to maintain the current position. 
MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT
a) Payroll turnover (200) 0 (200) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Increase to the current projection based on
dragging vacancies for 4 weeks after vacancy
scrutiny approval.
b) Transition slippage (100) (100) 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
Based on historic slippage.
c) Contractual inflation (100) (100) 0 August 2025 -
month 3 report
d)  Service Redesign Fund (100) (100) November 2025 -
moth 6 report
TOTAL (500) (200) (300)
OTHER AREAS
b) Agenda for Change - assume fully
funded
(838) 0 (838) August 2025 -
month 3 report
Based on 100% cost of the half hour reduction
in working week being funded.
(838) 0 (838)
TOTAL RECOVERY ACTION (4,159) (806) (3,353)
Remaining projected overspend 1,604

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Bank and Agency Costs to Month 6      Appendix F
1) NHS
4863
(Registered)
4864
(Unregistered)
4853
(Registered)
4854
(Unregistered) TOTAL
Average per
month
AAC074 North Core Slt Adult 3,098 3,098 516
AAC403 Ward 1 Woodlands View 23,100 173,772 196,872 32,812
AAC406 Ward 2 Woodlands View 15,431 230,267 245,698 40,950
AAC410 Ach Redburn Rehab Ward Nrs 17,929 110,872 128,801 21,467
AAC412 Ach Douglas Grant Rehab Wd Nrs 15,320 29,379 44,699 7,450
AAD401 Ward 3 Woodlands View Nursing 5,472 223,152 228,624 38,104
AAD402 Ward 4 Woodlands View Nursing 870 22,234 23,104 3,851
AAH047 New Clonbeith Nursing(jura) 60,239 65,250 125,489 20,915
AAH415 Wview The Glen Ect 3,133 4,013 7,146 1,191
AAH417 Wview Ward 10 Acute Mh Nrs 2,991 192,253 195,244 32,541
AAH423 Wview Ward 8 Acute Mh Nrs 13,583 510,635 524,218 87,370
AAH460 Ward 5 Woodlands View 1,821 9,955 11,776 1,963
AAH466 Wview Ward 7b Rehab Mh Nrs 2,302 2,302 384
AAH492 New Dunure Nursing(clonbeith) 21,653 94,990 116,643 19,441
AAH494 Mh Bed Management 16,565 16,565 2,761
AAT001 Trindlemoss 37,950 147,097 185,047 30,841
AAW047 Arran Hospital Nursing 40,072 32,879 72,951 12,159
ACA405 Camhs Management 1,944 1,944 324
ACA412 Camhs Unscheduled Care 801 801 134
ACF001 Early Yrs-c/f Team 1 923 923 154
ACF003 Early Yrs-c/f Team 3 974 974 162
ACF051 Immunisation Nursing 5,751 867 6,618 1,103
ACN047 Arran Dn 13,607 13,607 2,268
ACN012 Package Of Care (p) - Amg 80,863 80,863 13,477
ACN013 Package Of Care (p) - Lmo 312 312 52
ACP002 Nc Poc Team 2 990 990 165
ACP003 Nc Poc Team 3 3,271 3,271 545
ADN000 Three Towns Dn -101 -101 -17
ADN033 Irvine Dn 16,516 16,516 2,753
ADN042 North West Coast Dn 25,545 25,545 4,258
ADN075 Garnock Valley Dn 40,739 40,739 6,790
AHM154 North Ahp Management Team 7,329 7,329 1,222
ALA047 Lady Margaret Nursing 7,662 3,543 11,205 1,868
AMA408 Prevention + Services Spt Team 2,397 2,397 400
AML146 Ld Health Checks 12,238 12,238 2,040
AML392 North Cldt 5,777 164 5,941 990
AML402 Lds Management 2,286 2,286 381
AML429 Mhanps Mh Unscheduled Care 1,931 57 1,988 331
AML500 Mhs Inpatient Mgt 13,288 210 13,498 2,250
AMN412 Cmht Nursing-north Ayrshire 2,988 2,988 498
AMN415 Wview Ward 7c Forensic Rehab N 6,593 88,175 94,768 15,795
AMN425 Intensive Community Nursing Team 24,761 1,556 26,317 4,386
AMN431 Adult Mental Health Liasion Team 21,271 21,271 3,545
AMN433 Pcmht North 1,798 1,798 300
AMN446 Wview Ward 6 Low Secure Nrs 25,182 88,548 113,730 18,955
AMN454 Warrix Ave 56,387 52,694 109,081 18,180
ANU632 Icfn - Community Phlebotomy 6,278 6,278 1,046
AMN468 Action 15 - Adult Liaison 0 0
AMY415 Forensic Psychology 3,248 3,248 541
ASC001 Child Health Admin 1,083 1,083 181
AWV438 Wview Ward 7a Ld A+t Nrs 25,610 425,962 1,804 14,532 467,908 77,985
AXC407 Wview Ward 9 Acute Mh Nrs 13,199 199,604 226 213,029 35,505
AXC418 Wview Ward 11 Acute Mh Nrs 21,540 126,730 148,270 24,712
630,298 2,941,070 2,030 14,532 3,587,930
2) SOCIAL CARE
£
217,700
271,857
108,382
597,939
Bank Agency
Montrose House
LD - Asessment and Care Management
MH - Asessment and Care Management