21129 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Individual Service Funds
What the buyer wrote
Individual Service Funds (ISFs) were formally introduced in the Care Act (2014), as an option for commissioning self-directed support. They are a mechanism by which an individual’s Personal Budget, agreed by a Social Worker, is held by a third party organisation (i.e. neither by the Local Authority nor the Service User) who is trusted by the client to help them find the care and support they need in the local community, be it access to Day Services, a Personal Assistant (PA), equipment needs, live-in care, social prescribing or signposting to other services and voluntary organisations that will help them achieve their agreed outcomes, or indeed a combination of all of the above. It is a form…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- 21129 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Individual Service Funds
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Where
- in the East of England
- Kind of work
- Health and social care
Who the buyer named
The buyer published a contact address on this notice.