As Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, I agree to:
a) APPROVE the following changes (which were subject to public consultation) to the Community Wellbeing Services,
· Cease to commission the Community Navigation services for older people (55+) delivered by Involve Kent, Imago Community and South East Kent (SEK). Three months’ notice to be given to providers.
· Reduce funding and redesign the Wellbeing Services in the Community for older people (55+) delivered by SEK, Involve Kent and Imago Community. This would be achieved by varying each of the three contracts and incorporate elements of community navigation. The service to focus on supporting people needing medium to higher levels of support, support for people assessed as having lower-level needs would stop. Work on this will start as soon as any decision has been taken, involving discussions with providers on the design and key performance indicators of the services, to be implemented three months after the decision. The varied Wellbeing contracts to end on 31 March 2027.
· Mental Health Wellbeing Services in the Community (Live Well Kent and Medway) - delivered by Porchlight and Shaw Trust. The proposal is to undertake a contract modification to each provider’s contract, removing the requirement to deliver the Innovation fund. Reduce the contract value for the Innovation Fund and back-office supportand remove Shaw Trust unallocated spend; and
b) DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health to take other relevant actions, including but not limited to finalising the terms of and entering into required contracts or other legal agreements, as necessary to implement the decision.