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Preventing Homelessness Accommodation Pathways - adults (22+) and families
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To approve a commissioning plan for homelessness services, entailing around £5 million annual spend.
Decision:
Agreed to commission the following services to help homeless households recover from homelessness and substance misuse, as described in the commissioning plan:
1. Three homelessness ‘accommodation pathways’ for single people and couples. To negotiate with current providers to create the pathways, with the new services in place by October 17.
2. One substance misuse accommodation pathway (funded through the substance misuse budget). To negotiate with current providers to create the pathway, with the new service in place by October 17.
3. Accommodation for families. To extend the current family services until March 2018, and then to tender for a new resettlement service.
4. A resettlement service. To extend the current floating support service until July 2018, and then to tender for a new resettlement service.
5. A peer support service. To jointly tender a peer support service with the substance misuse team, as part of a wider substance misuse service.
To enter into flexible five year contracts with the option to extend for up to a further two periods of one year each. There will be an annual review of the contracts.
Report author: Tom Rhodes
Publication date: 16/05/2017
Date of decision: 16/05/2017
Decided at meeting: 16/05/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 24/05/2017
Accompanying Documents:
- 9a Preventing Homelessness Accommodation Pathways – adults (22+) and families Report PDF 80 KB
- 9b Appendix A (i) - Commissioning plan PDF 484 KB
- 9c Appendix A (ii) - Summary of commissioning plan PDF 81 KB
- 9d Appendix B - You said, we did PDF 179 KB
- 9e Appendix C Scrutiny PDF 16 KB
- 9f Appendix E - EqIA PDF 610 KB