What the buyer wrote
Reading Borough Council is seeking expressions of interest from organisations who can provide support for service users receiving Direct Payments. Our uptake of Direct Payments currently stands at around 11% amongst eligible Social Care clients. We wish to achieve a 25% uptake, in order to promote greater levels of choice and independence amongst our service users, and in order to generate savings against our existing social care spend. Support to enable a person to set up and manage their Direct Payment would be identified on an individual basis as part of the care planning process and built into the Personal Budget if required. Individuals would be supported to access the right supp…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Provision of Direct Payment Support Services
- 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
- 1 Mar 2017
- Work ends
- 28 Feb 2020
Who the buyer named
John Littlefair was the named contact on this notice.