Key documents
Find key documents underpinning the work of South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership in the relevant links below. These documents include:
The Strategic Commissioning Plan (SCP) sets out how health and social care services will be delivered in a more integrated way to improve the quality of support for people. Crucially, the plan sets out how services will be delivered in local areas against priorities identified by communities themselves.
The SCP itself is statutory, with a three-year planning cycle mandated by the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014.
The development of this new Plan involved a period of engagement, the preparation of an updated Strategic Needs Assessment, an Integrated Impact Assessment and a Housing Contribution Statement. You can read these supporting documents:
Housing Contribution Statement
You can read previous Strategic Commissioning Plans and supporting docments here.
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board Annual Performance Reports
South Lanarkshire Ingtegration Joint Board Annual Performance Report 2024/2025 (non-accesible pdf)
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board Annual Performance Report 2024/2025 (accessible ODT)
You can read previous Annual Performane Reports here.
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board Annual Accounts provide an overview of the key outcomes relating to the objectives of the IJB. It considers our financial performance for the year ended 31 March each year and provides an indication of the issues and risks which may impact upon our finances in the future.
South Lanarkshire Ingtegration Joint Board Annual Accounts 2025/2026 Unaudited
You can read previous Annual Accounts here.
South Lanarkshire IJB Financial Forecasts - Medium to Long Term
The IJB and both partners require to set balanced budgets. It is important that the IJB’s ambitions are set within the context of the funding which is available.
The purpose of the financial forecasts is to set out the financial challenges facing the IJB in maintaining financial stability whilst achieving the strategic commissioning intentions. The financial forecasts relate to the ten-year period 2026 to 2036. In recognition of the future uncertainty, three outlooks are explored to project the future cost increases i.e. planning, pessimistic and optimistic.
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board Annual Audit Report
South Lanarkshire IJB Annual Audit Report 2024/2025
You can read previous Annual Audit Reports here.
South Lanarkshire IJB Records Management Plan
The Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011 (‘the Act’) came into force in January 2013. The Act requires the IJB and other public bodies to prepare and implement a Records Management Plan (RMP). The RMP sets out arrangements for the management of records within the IJB. Section 5 (1) of the Act requires authorities to keep their plans under review to ensure its arrangements remain fit for purpose.
You can access a copy of the South Lanarkshire IJB Assessment Report on the National Records of Scotland website.
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board Assessment Report (nrscotland.gov.uk)
South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Integration Scheme is important as it sets out crucial aspects of how integration will look in South Lanarkshire in the future including:
- The functions of health and social care which are to be delegated to the new H&SCP
- How the delegated functions will be delivered and monitored
- Development of financial management and governance arrangements
South Lanarkshire IJB Risk Management Policy and Strategy
Integrated Impact Assessments (IIAs)
The 2026 Impact Assessment can be viewed here.
The 2025 Impact Assessments can be viewed here.
You can access previous Impact Assessments on the council website.
South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Communication Strategy is the partnership's communication strategy outlining a strategic approach.
South Lanarkshire IJB Participation and Engagement Strategy noutlines the approach that the Integration Joint Board will deploy in working with key stakeholders to strategically develop health and social care services in South Lanarkshire.
South Lanarkshire IJB Complaints Handling
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board values complaints and uses information
from them to help make improvements. If something goes wrong or you are dissatisfied please tell us.
The following leaflet describes our complaints procedure and how to make a complaint. It also tells you what you can expect from us.
Complaints Handling Procedure - Information Leaflet
For further information please see our complaints handling procedure below which reflects our commitment to valuing complaints.
It highlights how we seek to resolve dissatisfaction as close as possible to the point of contact and to conduct thorough, impartial and fair investigations of complaints so that, where appropriate, we can make evidence based decisions on the facts of the case.
South Lanarkshire IJB Complaints Handling Procedure
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act requires Scottish public authorities to adopt and
maintain a publication scheme which has the approval of the Scottish Information Commissioner
and publish information in accordance with that scheme.
South Lanarkshire IJB Publication Scheme
Corporate Governance is the term used to describe the overall control system. It details how functions are directed and controlled and how we relate to our communities. It covers the following dimensions including service delivery arrangements, structures and processes, risk management, internal control and standards of conduct.
South Lanarkshire IJB Corporate Governance Documents
Duty of Candour
The non-statutory Organisational Duty of Candour Guidance revised in March 2025 focuses on the implementation of the legal duty of candour procedure for health, care and social work services.
Information Sharing
The Lanarkshire Data Sharing Partnership Board (LDSP) oversees the development and maintenance of Information Sharing Protocols and Guidance which govern the sharing of information across partner agencies within Lanarkshire. These key documents all relate to the LDSP and Data Sharing.
Mainstreaming Equalities
For information on how SLIJB must report on how it proposes to meet the equality duty and our mainstreamkig equality actions please read the information on Mainstreaming Equalities.
