Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/076

Contact: Lara Fromings, Service Manager, Commissioning & Contracting (Learning Disabilities), Tel: (01865) 323629; Adam Marshall, Unit Manager, Commissioning & Contracting (Learning Disabilities) Tel: (01865) 323635

Report by Director for Social & Community Services (CA12).

(The information contained in Annexes 1 & 2 is ‘exempt information’ in that it falls within the following prescribed category:

(3) information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that disclosure would distort the proper process of the transaction and the Council’s standing generally in relation to such transactions in future, to the detriment of the Council’s ability properly to discharge its fiduciary and other duties as a public authority.

The Council is the lead commissioner for health and social care services for adults with Learning Disabilities in Oxfordshire. As part of this responsibility, the Council contracts with Ridgeway Partnership NHS Trust for the provision of community health and inpatient services to meet the specialist health needs of adults with learning disabilities in the County.  This contract expires at the end of December 2010.

In order to meet its responsibilities for the provision of specialist health services for people with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire, the Social & Community Services Directorate (Learning Disability Commissioning & Contracting Team), Legal Services, and County Procurement Team have worked with NHS Oxfordshire to specify and tender this element of service in accordance with the Council's Procurement Rules.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to approve the signing of a contract with Ridgeway Partnership to provide specialist health services for people with Learning Disabilities

Cabinet considered a report for the provision of community health and

inpatient services to meet the specialist health needs of adults with learning disabilities in the County.

RESOLVED:             to approve the signing of a contract with Ridgeway Partnership to provide specialist health services for people with Learning Disabilities.