Agenda item

AGREED; that

1.            the proposed model for the provision of direct payments support services for service users as set out in the report be approved;

2.            the proposed procurement process as set out in the report be approved; and

3.            Authority be delegated to the Director of Social Services in consultation with Cabinet Members for Corporate Services & Performance; Early Years Children and Families and Health, Housing & Wellbeing; the Section 151 Officer and Monitoring Officer, to determine all aspects of the procurement process up to and including the award of contracts and all ancillary matters pertaining to the procurement. 

Cabinet received a report detailing the proposed approach to the recommissioning of Direct Payments support services in line with the implementation of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014.

Direct Payments are a form of cash payment made to a person who is eligible for care and support from social services in order to enable them to arrange and pay for their own care and support.  

Cabinet also received a response to the Chair of the Community & Adult Services Scrutiny Committee following its consideration of this issue at their meeting on 10 January 2017.

AGREED; that

1.            the proposed model for the provision of direct payments support services for service users as set out in the report be approved;

2.            the proposed procurement process as set out in the report be approved; and

3.            Authority be delegated to the Director of Social Services in consultation with Cabinet Members for Corporate Services & Performance; Early Years Children and Families and Health, Housing & Wellbeing; the Section 151 Officer and Monitoring Officer, to determine all aspects of the procurement process up to and including the award of contracts and all ancillary matters pertaining to the procurement.