Award of Contract: Care and Support Services for People with Mental Health Needs
Minutes:
RESOLVED:
That Cabinet approve the award of a contract to Ability Housing Association to provide: a care and support service for people with mental health needs at Hayes Park Lodge and Hamlet Lodge and a floating support service to adults with mental health needs who meet social care criteria for a 3 year period. The cost of this award will be £1,035k for the core service and estimated cost for flexi and floating support of £1,428k.
Reasons for decision
Cabinet agreed to bring all such services together under one contract, in order to establish a new model of care that would enable people with a mental health need to have consistent support that meets their individual needs.
Alternative options considered and rejected
Cabinet could have decided that the Council provides the care and support services, but this was not considered as it would be better value for money procuring these services from a specialist provider organisation.
Officers to action:
Tony Zaman, Social Care
Beverley Grayley, Social Care
Classification: Private
Whilst the Cabinet's decisions above are always made public, the officer report relating to this matter is not because it was considered in the private part of the meeting and contained information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information) and the public interest in withholding the information outweighed the public interest in disclosing it (exempt information under paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 as amended.