Agenda item

Simon Favell gave a presentation about the tender for the Adult Prevention services

· NCC and Health have issued a countywide contract

· NBC currently has 48 agencies bidding to provide services to people who are vulnerable in the town. This includes people who have drug, alcohol, depression, mental health problems.

· NBC are looking at offering community services and are keen to work with local agencies who have a knowledge of local needs within the community

· There is no additional money available as the money comes from the same pot of funding as weight management, smoking etc.

· Their aim is to deal with the person individually and also offer support within families in the community. For example someone with mental health may also have issues with housing, money etc.

· The deadline for interest is 22nd October 2014.

· Their aim is to pick up cases at an early stage and prevent people going into care.

· They were finding that different communities had the same issues.

· NBC are looking at GP’s working with leisure centres – ie health checks

· They are also working with the University’s PHD students to research the needs of the community

Questions and Answers

Q. A person may have different issues, how do people access different services

A. They can access it though NBC as a first point of call. They have Gateway team so the person needing support will only need to register once. It will be logged on their systems initially and NBC will build a package of support for the person working with local agencies. He also said that people could also go through an individual organisation that can then refer the enquiry to NBC (as a broker). NBC will pay on outcomes of services delivered.

Q. Prevention is a long gain and it does need money invested in it.

A. It will take about 18 months to set this up properly. There is a cut in money already. The long gain is that there will be a board of people including clients and it could be set up as an Industrial & Providence Society.

Q. With 48 partners delivering – do you recognise the time taken to achieve these outcomes

A. They are looking to start a block grant eg 6-8 people use that money

Q. If you have to create a plan what do you do in an emergency

A. Most partners work 24 hours, NBC would want the group to deal with it and will pay the organisation after. They will put procedures in place with different groups, some who may need funding prior to delivery.

Anna King thanked Simon Favell and invited him to attend a future meeting with an update.  Simon can be contacted on 01604 837079 or email SFavell@northampton.gov.uk

The group discussed who will be measuring the outcomes and how. It was commented that this would vary for different communities and there were questions on how it would be benchmarked. Tendai Ndongwe said that NHFT had a very similar bid and were keen to work with partners. They were currently working in partnership with MIND as Wellbeing navigators. It was commented that a directory of well-being services and who is doing what would be useful.