Provision of an Appropriate Adult Service
What the buyer wrote
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes of Practice require vulnerable adults detained in Police custody, or interviewed voluntarily, to be supported by an Appropriate Adult. Funding of £36K per annum has been identified and will be available for the contract, if required. Local Authority adult social care has historically been the source of Appropriate Adults for vulnerable adults. In 2018, Local Authorities in Cheshire announced they would be withdrawing their resources from Appropriate Adult provision for adults in custody, and have confirmed it is no longer a statutory requirement for the Local Authorities to provide this service and as such an alternative arrangeme…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Provision of an Appropriate Adult Service
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Aug 2019
- Work ends
- 31 Aug 2022
- Kind of work
- Health and social care
Who the buyer named
Helen Elliott was the named contact on this notice.