Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive

Recommendations:-

1.            That approval be given to the Council to invite bids for a lead voluntary sector organisation to engage with partner organisations and the Council in a co-design for the future provision of crisis support over the medium term 2020/21 – 2022/23 in accordance with the provisions of the Rotherham Compact.

2.            That, following the co-design process, proposals for future delivery arrangements be brought back to Cabinet for approval. 

Consideration was given to the report which detailed how the current contracts for provision of crisis support services – crisis loans; supply of food to food banks and the Service Level Agreement for the Food in Crisis Partnership would expire at the end of March, 2020.

The report, therefore, made recommendations for commissioning future crisis support services over the medium term three years 2020/21- 2022/23 with voluntary sector providers through the terms of the Rotherham Compact.

This process would include an invitation to bid to be the lead organisation in the voluntary sector to engage partner organisations in a co-design with the Council, leading to award of grant(s) and Service Level Agreements.

This report had been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board as part of the pre-scrutiny process who were in support of the recommendations, subject to consideration being given to further pre-decision scrutiny of the future delivery arrangements by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board prior to a future decision by Cabinet.

The Cabinet were happy to accept those recommendations.

Resolved:-  (1)  That approval be given to the Council to invite bids for a lead voluntary sector organisation to engage with partner organisations and the Council in a co-design for the future provision of crisis support over the medium term 2020/21 – 2022/23 in accordance with the provisions of the Rotherham Compact.

(2)  That, following the co-design process, proposals for future delivery arrangements be brought back to Cabinet for approval.