Agenda item

Report from the Strategic Director of Adult Care, Housing and Public Health.

Recommendations

1.    That Cabinet agree the recommissioning of an 'all age' Alcohol and Drug Service. The key change to the service model is approved, which is the move to a specialist pathway covering all ages and procured from one lead provider. This is to enable seamless transition between the services and to enhance the offer for younger service users. Within one pathway, there will be an expectation of separate service offers for young people, alcohol misuse prevention and treatment, drug treatment and recovery from all substance misuse.

2.    That there is recognition that this will take place on the outlined timetable subject to any major update from the forthcoming White Paper - Integration and Innovation: Working together to improve health and social care for all; specifically, in relation the proposals regarding supplier selection.

Consideration was given to the report which detailed the proposals for the recommissioning of an “all age” model for the Alcohol and Drugs Service with a contract start date of 1^st April, 2023.

There were currently two services: one for the needs of the adult population in Rotherham and the ‘DIVERT’ service for children and young people. Both of these Services had been awarded to Change Grow Live under separate tender exercises.

The adult Drug and Alcohol Service provided support to 1,284 Rotherham residents and offered a range of interventions, advice and support such as needle and syringe exchange, naloxone provision and substitute medication.

The children and young person’s Service provided advice and education to under 18’s with an average of one hundred referrals per year.

Both contracts were due to expire on 31st March, 2023 and it was seen as an opportune time to introduce an “all age” model as opposed to the two separate services. The type of procurement required for the contract was subject to potential reform as a result of the Dame Carol Black review which was attached to the report at Appendix 4.

It was, therefore, proposed that the contract be awarded for a period of five years with annual extension options after that on a year-by-year basis for up to a further five years. The contract length in total would, therefore, be ten years. The reason for this is that it would provide greater stability and acknowledged that this type of Service needed sufficient time to embed and deliver.

Resolved:-  (1)  That the recommissioning of an 'all age' Alcohol and Drug Service and the key change to the service model be approved, which is the move to a specialist pathway covering all ages and procured from one lead provider. This is to enable seamless transition between the services and to enhance the offer for younger service users. Within one pathway, there will be an expectation of separate service offers for young people, alcohol misuse prevention and treatment, drug treatment and recovery from all substance misuse.

(2)  That there is recognition that this will take place on the outlined timetable subject to any major update from the forthcoming White Paper - Integration and Innovation: Working together to improve health and social care for all; specifically, in relation the proposals regarding supplier selection.