Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Staffordshire County Council (the Council)
supports nearly 3,000 people to manage their assessed eligible
social care needs in a care home. The Council commissions these
placements through a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to make
individual placements. The Council intended to redesign and
introduce a new arrangement with the marketplace by April 2023. The
Council is currently undergoing engagement with and analysis of the
care home market to meet the Government’s conditions of the
Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund. The conditions
include establishing a Staffordshire Fair cost of care rate for
older people’s care and to develop a Market Sustainability
Plan. To allow for the outcome of the Fair Cost of Care exercise to
support the redesign of the Council’s contracting
arrangements it is recommended to further extend the current DPS to
April 2024.
Reasons for the Decision – To consider the extension to the Council’s Dynamic Purchasing System Agreement with care providers for commissioning residential and nursing care home services until April 2024.
Decision – That the recommendations contained in the report be agreed.</AI21>
Report author: Helen Trousdale
Publication date: 22/09/2022
Date of decision: 21/09/2022
Decided at meeting: 21/09/2022 - Cabinet
Effective from: 28/09/2022
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