Issue - meetings

To consider a report on the establishment of a Framework Agreement through which to purchase future specialist care placements for adults with complex needs.

Cabinet considered a report on the establishment of a Framework Agreement through which to purchase future specialist care placements for adults with complex needs.

To support the management of costs the Council had piloted the use of the Care Funding Calculator developed by the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships. By piloting the Calculator, significant savings had been negotiated in 2013/14. To embed this approach into the Council’s future procurement and contracts it was proposed that the Council establish a Framework Agreement through which it would purchase future specialist care placements for adults with complex needs.

RESOLVED

That Cabinet

1.    note the savings already achieved by Cheshire East Council through the piloting of the Care Funding Calculator;

2.    support the mandatory use of the tool to review all existing placements and any new complex needs care placements on an invest to save basis;

3.    approve the establishment of a Framework Agreement through which it will purchase future specialist care placements for adults with complex needs;

4.    delegate authority to the Director of Adult Social Care and Independent Living (Brenda Smith) to award contracts to providers meeting the requirements of the framework; and

5.    delegate authority to the Director of Adult Social Care and Independent Living to award individual call offs under the framework contracts to provide support for individual service users.