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13.1

The Assistant
Director of Commissioning and Partnerships
introduced the report
which:
 
·      
Updated Committee on the new contracts for the
delivery of Care and Wellbeing Services for adults delivered within
their own homes. These services are also known as ‘home
care’.
·      
Provided an overview of the transition and
mobilisation to the new contracts following ‘go live’
on 3rd June 2024.
·      
Asked the Adult Health and Social Care Policy
Committee to approve the commissioning intentions for home care
alongside the Care and Wellbeing Service contracts, which support
aims to ensure timely care for the people we support, including as
part of the Hospital Discharge and Urgent Care programme, and to
ensure continuity of care.
·      
Asked the Adult Health and Social Care Policy
Committee to approve the commissioning of a TEC Monitoring Centre
with the contract from the 5 September 2024 to the 7 September
2025.
 

13.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That
the Adult Health and Social Care Policy
Committee:-

1.    
Notes the outcome of the tender for
Sheffield’s Care and Wellbeing Service Contracts and
mobilisation and transition to the service, which went live on 3rd
June 2024.

2.    
Approves the commissioning of home care provision,
to run alongside the Care and Wellbeing Service contract, and to
note that a tender process will follow. This will enable the
Council to procure individual packages of home care for people
living in Sheffield and, in the case of a provider exit, to tender
for a Care and Wellbeing ‘patch’ in a timely
way.

3.    
Approves the commissioning of a 12-month contract
with the option to extend for an additional 12 months for the
provision of 24/7 TEC Monitoring Services, and to note that a
tender process will follow, and to further note that this will
allow the necessary time to commission our new TEC Service Delivery
Model which will be implemented subject to approval on Monday 8
September 2025.

13.3

Reasons for
Decision

13.3.1

The Care and Wellbeing service contracts will
provide the delivery of most of the home care in the City. However,
the Council will need to ensure that additional contractual
arrangements are in place for the
following: 

A small number of individual packages where a
different provider is appropriate.  
People whose care package did not transfer to a
Care and Wellbeing provider 

13.3.2

It is also important that the Council has a
mechanism by which to rapidly tender for a patch within the Care
& Wellbeing service model should any provider exit the market.
To support our duties under the Care Act 2014 to have a sufficient
and stable market offering continuity of care, and to allow us to
maintain strong market oversight and deliver within best practice,
the Council will need to have a readily available procurement route
should any of the above situations arise.
 

13.4

Alternatives Considered and
Rejected

13.4.1

If the
Council did not pursue alternative contractual arrangements of
packages of home care falling outside of the Care and Wellbeing
Service contract, we would find ourselves having to use spot
purchase arrangements. These present a higher risk to the council
both in terms of cost and quality.