Agenda item

1.  Noted that approval for award was required to ensure continuity of care and to avoid disruption of services whilst providing sufficient time to align all procurement activities relating to substance misuse treatment and recovery.

2.  Approved the procurement of an Integrated Adult and Young Peoples’ Substance Misuse service (Lot 1) for a nine-year period (five-year contract plus two extension periods of two-year from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2031 to the maximum value of £11.5m. This would be funded through Public Health Grant and will replace several existing services set out at Exempt Appendix 1.

3.  Approved the procurement of rough sleepers’ substance misuse outreach service (Lot 2) for a contract (12 months plus 12 months extension) from 1st April 2023 – 30th June 2025, this would be funded as detailed in Exempt Appendix 2.

4.  Noted that the procurement model described in this report was reflective of the various funding streams available for services and is designed to minimise the financial risk to the Council should funding be reduced or withdrawn.

5.  Noted that a report concerning the new delivery model for an Integrated Substance Misuse Service was intended to be presented to People Scrutiny Panel in June 2022. 

6.  Agreed that a report concerning contract award for the Integrated Substance Misuse Service would be presented to Cabinet in December 2022

7.  Delegated authority to the Executive Director for People (Adults), in consultation with the Lead Member for Social Care and Public Health, to have oversight of the procurement process.

8.  Approved a direct contract award to Turning Point to deliver additional services from 1st August 2022 – 31st March 2023. This would be at the value of outlined in Exempt Appendix 2.

9.  Approved a direct contract award to Farnham Road Surgery to deliver additional clinical services from 1st August 2022 – 31st March 2023.  This would be at the value of outlined in Exempt Appendix 2.

10.Approved the granting of a lease and any supplemental document(s) of Elliman Resource Unit 27 Pursers Court Slough SL2 5DL to Turning Point for a term of one year commencing 1 April 2022. Further information was contained in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

11.Approved the grant of a lease and any supplemental document(s) of Elliman Resource Unit 27 Pursers Court Slough SL2 5DL to the new provider for a minimum term of 5 years commencing 1 April 2023. Further information was contained in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

12.Delegated authority to the Executive Director of Resources in consultation with the Executive Director of Place & Community to finalise terms and execute the lease and supplemental documentation of the above property to the tenant/provider.

The Lead Member for Social Care & Public Health introduced a report that made a series of recommendations about the procurement of integrated substance misuse treatment services. 

Appendices 1 to 3 to the report contained exempt information and was included in Part II of the agenda.  The Cabinet considered and noted this information during the public part of the meeting without disclosing any of the exempt information.

Approval was sought to progress to procurement for an integrated service to commence from 1^st April 2023 and to award contracts to Turning Point and Farnham Road Shared GP Practice for the intervening period between 1^st August 2022 and 31^st March 2023.  This would ensure the continuity of care and avoid disruption of services whilst providing sufficient time to align all procurement activities relating to substance misuse treatment and recovery. 

The aim of re-modelling substance misuse services was to support the key priorities in the Government’s new ten-year drug strategy, ‘From Harm to Hope’.  These included increasing the number and quality of placements; decreasing drug and alcohol related death; decreasing associated crimes such as burglary, robbery and theft; and increasing treatment places for rough sleepers.  The Government had allocated £293m over the next three years to deliver the strategy and this would supplement funding from the core public health grant.  The Lead Member highlighted the importance of service user engagement in the process of re-modelling of the service and commented that this would be most effective by using creative methods and not just paper-based consultation.

The Cabinet recognised that substance misuse was a much wider problem than just for the adult social care service and a Council-wide approach should be taken which included areas such as housing and licensing.  Queries were also raised about partnership working and performance management to which Officers responded.

At the conclusion of the discussion, the Cabinet approved the recommendations, with one amendment to (l) to state the delegation was to the Executive Director of Resources, ‘in consultation with’ the Executive Director of Place & Community.

Resolved –

(a)  That it be noted that approval for award was required to ensure continuity of care and to avoid disruption of services whilst providing sufficient time to align all procurement activities relating to substance misuse treatment and recovery.

(b)  That the procurement of an Integrated Adult and Young Peoples’ Substance Misuse service (Lot 1) for a nine-year period (five-year contract plus two extension periods of two-year from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2031 to the maximum value of £11.5m be approved. This would be funded through Public Health Grant and will replace several existing services set out at Exempt Appendix 1 to the report.

(c)  That the procurement of rough sleepers’ substance misuse outreach service (Lot 2) for a contract (12 months plus 12 months extension) from 1st April 2023 – 30th June 2025 be approved.  This would be funded as detailed in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

(d)  That it be noted that the procurement model described in the report was reflective of the various funding streams available for services and was designed to minimise the financial risk to the Council should funding be reduced or withdrawn.

(e)  That it be noted that a report concerning the new delivery model for an Integrated Substance Misuse Service was intended to be presented to People Scrutiny Panel in June 2022.

(f)  That a report concerning contract award for the Integrated Substance Misuse Service would be presented to Cabinet in December 2022.

(g)  That delegated authority be granted to the Executive Director for People (Adults), in consultation with the Lead Member for Social Care and Public Health, to have oversight of the procurement process.

(h)  That a direct contract award to Turning Point to deliver additional services from 1st August 2022 – 31st March 2023 be approved. This would be at the value of outlined in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

(i)  That a direct contract award to Farnham Road Surgery to deliver additional clinical services from 1st August 2022 – 31st March 2023 be approved.  This would be at the value of outlined in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

(j)  That the granting of a lease and any supplemental document(s) of Elliman Resource Unit 27 Pursers Court Slough SL2 5DL to Turning Point for a term of one year commencing 1 April 2022 be approved. Further information was contained in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

(k)  That the grant of a lease and any supplemental document(s) of Elliman Resource Unit 27 Pursers Court Slough SL2 5DL to the new provider for a minimum term of 5 years commencing 1 April 2023 be approved. Further information was contained in Exempt Appendix 2 to the report.

(l)  That delegated authority be granted to the Executive Director of Resources in consultation with the Executive Director of Place & Community to finalise terms and execute the lease and supplemental documentation of the above property to the tenant/provider.