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Forward Plan Ref: 2010/117

Contact: Natalia Lachkou, Supporting People Programme Manager Tel: (01865) 894858

Report by Director for Social & Community Services (CMDAS5).

In December 2009, Oxfordshire County Council and NHS Oxfordshire published a Joint Commissioning Strategy 2009-2013 ‘From Supported to Independent Living’. This is a wide ranging and comprehensive housing and support strategy for people with mental health issues in Oxfordshire whose aim is to ensure that services are effective, responsive and empower those who use them to achieve recovery as far as possible.

A key outcome of the strategy was the joint procurement of a range of mental health housing and support services across Oxfordshire. These would work in an integrated way to provide a coherent pathway for service users to progress from intensive support to independent living at a reduced cost.

 Funding for this procurement was brought together from the following sources: 

1. Supporting People Partnership for housing related support for adults with mental health difficulties

2. NHS Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire County Council Social and Community Services through the Adult Mental Health Pooled Budget                  

Organisations were invited to bid for a range of provision representing key elements of the pathway. These were divided into five service package areas.

• Service Package 1:  Intensive Supported Accommodation-24 hour short term on site accommodation based services

• Service Package 2: Countywide Transitional Supported Accommodation-Daytime short term on site accommodation based services with out of hours emergency call out

• Service Package 3: Longer Term Supported Accommodation-Long term accommodation based services based in Oxford City

•Service Package 4: Countywide Mental Health Floating Support Service

• Service Package 5: Countywide Multiple/Complex Needs Mental Health Floating Support Service for individuals who have multiple needs, with mental health being a primary need.

The public should be excluded during consideration of Annex 1 because its discussion in public would be likely to lead to the disclosure to members of the public present of information in the following prescribed category:

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

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would prejudice the commercial position of the parties involved.

The Cabinet Member for Adult Services is RECOMMENDED to confirm the award of contracts for all service packages as set out in Annex 1 (exempt) to the report.

to confirm the award of contracts for all service packages as set out in Annex 1 (exempt) to the report. This confirmation will be subject to the availability of funding following the local government settlement in early December 2010.