A risk sharing agreement between Rochdale council and health bosses has been suspended due to ‘frightening’ uncertainty over Covid-19 funding.
Two years ago the council and the borough's clinical comminssioning group (CCG) created a pooled fund as part of the merging of health and social care - with the local authority responsible for 30pc of the budget.
But that arrangement has now been put on hold due to the government appearing to row back on its pledge to fully fund coronavirus-related costs incurred by councils and health bodies.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak had promised to do ‘whatever it takes to get the nation through’, while communities secretary Robert Jenrick told councils the government would be ‘ensuring money flows to you’.
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