PART 1Functions of local authorities and Health Boards

Carrying out of integration functions

I142Integration authority: performance report

1

Each integration authority must prepare a performance report for the reporting year.

2

A performance report is a report setting out an assessment of performance during the reporting year to which it relates in planning and carrying out the integration functions for the area of the local authority.

3

The Scottish Ministers may by regulations prescribe the form and content of performance reports.

4

An integration authority must—

a

publish each performance report before the expiry of the period of 4 months beginning with the end of the reporting year, and

b

provide a copy of it to the persons mentioned in subsection (5).

5

Those persons are—

a

where the integration authority is an integration joint board, each constituent authority,

b

where the integration authority is a local authority and a Health Board acting jointly, the integration joint monitoring committee,

c

where the integration authority is a Health Board or a local authority—

i

the integration joint monitoring committee, and

ii

the other authority.

6

A constituent authority must provide an integration authority which is an integration joint board with such information as the authority may reasonably require for the purpose of preparing a performance report.

7

The other authority must provide an integration authority which is a Health Board or a local authority with such information as the integration authority may reasonably require for the purpose of preparing a performance report.

8

In this section—

  • “other authority” means the local authority or the Health Board with which the integration authority prepared the integration scheme in pursuance of which the integration authority acquired its delegated functions,

  • “reporting year”, in relation to an integration authority, means—

    1. a

      the period beginning with the date prescribed under section 9(3) or, as the case may be, 15(2) and ending on the first anniversary of that date, and

    2. b

      each subsequent period of a year.