Issue - meetings

Report CS12060

In line with the Council’s Corporate Operating principle that the Council’s services would be provided by whoever offered customers and council tax payers excellent value for money, and in accordance with a gateway review process under Contract Procedure Rules, Education and Care Services had considered options for delivering reablement, extra care housing for older people and learning disability services which were currently provided by in house teams.

It was proposed that extra care housing and reablement services would be tendered in April 2013 in order to establish who is best placed to deliver these services and that further work was carried out to establish the most appropriate model for future commissioning of learning disability services.

The Chairman was concerned that figures in the report seemed to indicate that there were “voids” in extra care housing.  Officers explained that one of the requirements of the Mayor’s funding was there had to be a proportion of double flats available within schemes, these were not always easy to fill and could lead to some not being occupied.

The Chairman queried the underspend of £19k on re-ablement outlined in the previous budget monitoring report.  Officers explained that this projection was due to in year staff vacancies. 

RESOLVED that the Executive is requested to:

1.  agree to proceed to tendering the extra care housing service using the framework which was set up in 2011;

2.  agree to proceed to tendering the reablement service; and 

3.  note that savings will be sought in the in house learning disability service in 2013/14 and that a further report on the most appropriate future commissioning model will be made during 2013.