Health and social work services

Tender description

The London Borough of Croydon is has awarded providers with relevant experience a place on the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to supply independent living services. The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) model provides flexibility both for the Council and providers as new suppliers can, having met the exclusion and selection criteria, join the DPS throughout its duration. The Council will allow access to the DPS to its health partners in Croydon including the: — Croydon One Alliance; — Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); — Croydon Health Services (CHS); — Croydon National Health Services (NHS Trust); — South London and Maudsley Hospital (SLaM). The Council is procuring this DPS under the light touch regime and is adapting it to enable it to procure the services it requires. Please see the additional information of the notice. Provision of Care Quality Commission (CQC) Regulated and Non-CQC Regulated Adult Supported Living Placements for the London Borough of Croydon. This specification describes the minimum requirements and standards for delivering any part of the services. Supported living is a person-centred approach to housing and care and support services. It is based on service users (people) having a tenancy or license agreement offering the right to remain in their own home and change their support provider if they wish or where the Council commissions a different support provider. It can mean living in shared accommodation or living alone with care and support. The key characteristics of supported living are: • separation of the provision of housing from care and support; • the landlord issues a tenancy or license agreement; • the service users are eligible for care services from the Council and have a care package; • CQC registration as home care where personal care is provided, including the prompting and supervision of personal care activities Providers can apply for one or more service categories (sublots) for supported living. The service categories for lot 1 are as follows: 1) mental health, 2) learning disabilities, 3) physical disabilities, 4) autism, 5) challenging behaviour. Supported Housing can be delivered as visiting support or can be accommodation based. Where it is accommodation based, it can be designated as ‘Supported Exempt Accommodation’ as such housing benefit can paid at an enhanced rate to cover the intensive housing management necessary to support these vulnerable people. This lot also includes floating support services. Floating/flexible support services are housing related support services delivered to people in their own homes. The support is not linked to the accommodation so when the support is no longer required it can be moved to another service user. Providers can apply for one or more service categories (sublots) for housing related support. The service categories for lot 2 are as follows: 1) single homeless, ex-offenders and rough sleepers; 2) women who have experienced or are at risk of domestic abuse and sexual violence; 3) single homeless with experience of psychological trauma, complex mental health issues, alcohol and drug misuse, and/or neuro-developmental disorders and/or physical disabilities; 4) adults who require longer term accommodation based support services (mainly older people); 5) floating support. Lot 3 has not yet been awarded. The service will enable Young People who have either been ‘In Care’, or are deemed vulnerable because of their previous life experiences, to succeed in their transition to adulthood. The specification seeks to define the core requirements that are common to a range of services, each providing different levels of person-centred support, ranging from early intervention/short term accommodation, to 24 hour staffed accommodation, to varying levels of outreach support that enables the young person to sustain their own tenancy. The London Borough of Croydon is looking to work with service providers, who can demonstrate both the experience and expertise in providing person centred support to young individuals or groups of individuals, in one or more than one of the following service areas: 1) emergency/short term supported accommodation: to enable the young person to return to live within their family home or to provide an interim solution; 2) semi-independent 24 hour staffed accommodation for 16-18 year olds: in small group living arrangements for a maximum of 6 young people; 3) semi-independent accommodation for Care leavers 18-25: with allocated support (not 24 hour) in group living environments; 4) group or independent accommodation for young people aged 18-25 whose needs may require additional specialist support: primarily but not exclusively associated with mental ill-health, substance misuse, criminal behaviour, learning disability and/or autistic spectrum; 5) single gender group living schemes: for young people aged 16+ at risk of criminal exploitation; 6) training flats for care leavers aged 18+: to trial living independently prior to a permanent move. 7) outreach support: to facilitate and sustain the move for young people aged 18-25 to independent accommodation. 8) other types of semi-independent accommodation services: that may be required and that will be specified at call-off stage.