Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, People, which sought approval to award a contract to the Carers Trust for a home based respite care service.

The Board was advised that the Authority currently had a jointly funded contract in place with the Carers Trust, which was due to expire on 31 March 2018. It was reported that an NHS Halton CCG scoping paper looking at the provision of end of life care, recommended that further work was undertaken to support the development of a different commissioning process to enable a new delivery model for end of care life. The service provided by the Carers Trust would fall within the remit of this end of life review, and this necessitated an extension to their current contract for a further year. It was confirmed that the Quality Assurance Team would continue to monitor the service to ensure the Council and Halton residents received value for money.

RESOLVED: That the use of Procurement Standing Order 1.14.3 (f) be agreed to award a contract to the Carers Trust for a one year period from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019.