Decision Maker: Cabinet Member - Health and Social Care
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Request approval to award a contract for
Housing Related Support: short-term accommodation-based
service.
Option c) To award a contract for the
Provision of Housing Related Support: Short-Term
Accommodation-Based Service for three (3) years with an option to
extend up to a further two (2) years, to the suppliers recommended
in the report.
Option a) Do not award a new contract for the
provision and allow it to continue as it is. This is not the
recommended option, as:
•The provision is out of contract and there are legal risks
with this option.
•This option would not deliver the improvements to service
delivery, nor savings to the council, identified in the
report.
•Continued uncertainty has a negative impact on service
providers, e.g. on staff retention, and on landlords, who are
unlikely to invest in the stock where future use is
uncertain.
Option b) Do not award a new contract and allow the provision to
cease. This is not the recommended option, as:
•Cabinet has previously approved the commissioning intentions
for re-tendering of the provision, recognising its contribution in
meeting the council’s duty of prevention and relief of
homelessness for households with additional support needs. These
households struggle in unsupported Temporary Accommodation (TA)
provision and cannot readily access general needs housing until
their support needs are addressed.
•The provision supports several council priorities, such as
helping care leavers to move on to independence, supporting victims
of domestic abuse in safe accommodation - which is a new statutory
duty - and to improve the mental health of vulnerable residents.
Many households are likely to experience further crises and require
more intensive and costly services without the support.
Option a) Do not award a new contract for the
provision and allow it to continue as it is.
and
Option b) Do not award a new contract and allow the provision to
cease.
Reason Key: Expenditure > £250,000 (Significant expenditure or savings);
Corporate Priorities : Co-operative Services with people and social value at their heart;
Wards Affected: (All Wards);
Key Decision Reference: HSC-06-21
Making Representations: To the report author
Other reasons / organisations consulted
With various stakeholders via meetings,
workshops, and focused consultation.
Consultees
Service users, and officers from several
Decorates including ASC, Strategic Housing, Children's
Services.
Contact: Lynda Megram, Planning & Commissioning Manager Email: lynda.megram@oldham.gov.uk Email: Lynda.Megram@oldham.gov.uk.
Publication date: 23/12/2021
Date of decision: 22/12/2021
Effective from: 06/01/2022
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