Decision details

That the following providers be added to the current framework of domiciliary care providers:

·  Care World Agency Ltd.

·  Eminent Domiciliary Care Agency.

The Council commissions Domiciliary Care for eligible Service Users living in the community.  The Council set up a framework of Providers in August 2012 in order to commission care at guaranteed prices from a selected group of Providers whose quality is assured.  In order to ensure that demand for domiciliary care can be met until the end of the current contract it is proposed to move some spot providers onto the framework.  This arrangement benefits the Council because the rates are controlled within the Council’s guideline prices and benefits the Providers because they are offered the opportunity to pick up more care packages.  The agencies proposed are rated good by CQC, have been working with the Council in excess of a year and have demonstrated the willingness to co-operate with the quality assurance process.  They are already caring for a number of Bromley residents.