Health and social work services

Tender description

Cambridgeshire County Council is commissioning Supported Living Services for Adults with a Learning Disability. Providers must recognise the role they play in ensuring that people with learning disabilities experience thegood health and wellbeing necessary to live a meaningful life. Providers should be aware that there are higherincidences of long term conditions, and other health problems, experienced by people with learning disabilitiesand prioritises preventative and palliative services and support to minimise potential impacts to service users.As such staff must have sufficient and appropriate training and skills to effectively engage people with learningdisabilities in health promotion. The Council is trying to move towards a model that helps people to live asindependently as possible at all levels of need, so the focus is on progression. Peterborough City Council may call-off this Framework for service users they have assessed as eligible using their criteria. Cambridgeshire County Council is setting up an Open Framework for a period of 10 years. This means that the Framework will re-open at intervals to allow for new and previously unsuccessful providers to apply to join. Cambridgeshire County Council is setting up an Open Framework for a period of 10 years. This means that the Framework will re-open at intervals to allow for new and previously unsuccessful providers to apply to join.