To confirm future delivery arrangements for the young persons’ housing related support services contract, currently delivered by SHYPP (Supported Housing for Young Persons Project ), part of West Mercia Housing Group.

The cabinet member health and wellbeing presented a report to confirm the delivery arrangements for the young persons’ housing related support services contract, currently delivered by SHYPP (Supported Housing for Young Persons Project), part of the West Mercia Housing Group.  The report had been called in by the Health and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee which had recommended that the counter proposals from SHYPP be properly considered and that cabinet determine whether, in the light of these proposals, they wished to propose any amendments to their previous recommendations.

In response to questions from cabinet members, the following points were made:

That the senior management of SHYPP had accepted the transitional funding of £78,331 for 2016/17.  A full case audit of service users in the 20 units of accommodation would be carried out between April and August 2016 in order to establish the level of need and future delivery model.  Once this audit had been undertaken a decision on how to proceed would be brought back to cabinet

Resolved:

That having reviewed the proposal (appendix 2) submitted by SHYPP, and having regard to the reasons (set out at paragraphs 10 and 11 of the report below) for implementing an approach which differs from that proposal, the original decision be confirmed as

(a)     the accommodation based support element of the contract is remodelled with a proportion of the service financed through exempt rents to maintain the existing service level from 1 April 2016;

(b)     a three month transitional period is allowed from 1 April to 30 June2016 to support the financial change to the accommodation based support element;

(c)     a 12 month transitional period is allowed from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 to support the de-commissioning of the floating support element; and

(d)     funding of £78,331 be made available to support the transition periods in recommendations b) and c) above.