LCP September 2015 update

Prioritised commissioning activity during 2015/16 Prioritised Commissioning ActivityTarget Date Ensure Central Management/Governance costings for all services do not exceed 10%.November 2015 Review Floating Support Provision and Older Persons Provision in line with the Aylward Review service model recommendations. April 2016 Review the ongoing strategic relevance of all currently-funded services.April 2016 Complete Pathways To Independence supported living support package right-sizing exercise. Ongoing Continue with joint regional service evaluations as per set evaluation schedules.Ongoing Scrutinise Outcome and Returns from Providers. Analyse requested Need and Supply Data to inform current Market Needs of NPT and evaluate as appropriate. November 2015 Review joint commissioning arrangements with Children & Young People’s Services.April 2016 External Review of Domestic Abuse Services via the Safe Lives Consultancy.April 2016 In last year’s LCP we set out plans to undertake the following prioritised commissioning activity:

Outstanding/further-planned commissioning activity during 2015&16: Scrutinise any potential duplication of funding across Supporting People contracts and negotiate return of grant and/or ongoing contract sum reduction. Continue to implement a rolling programme of service reviews that focusses on whether provision is needs-led, tenure neutral, appropriately targeted on those to whom the Social Services Health & Housing Service owes a statutory duty, and provides value for money. Devise the strategic methodology for implementing funding reductions across providers to account for an indicative reduction in grant settlement in 2016/17 of between 5 & 20%, net of any savings realised by the service review programme. Begin the ongoing process of routine re-tendering of services to ensure compliance with Council Contract Procedure Rules and procurement law.

Social Services Health & Housing Cabinet Board decisions 8 October 2015 (subject to call-in) That the Local Commissioning Plan update, for use and dissemination purposes as required, be approved; That the programme of service reviews * be approved; That the Head of Business Strategy & Public Protection be given delegated authority to oversee the Project Groups that determine the outcome of the above-mentioned service reviews; That the Head of Business Strategy & Public Protection be given delegated authority to approve a strategic rationale for managing any necessary funding reductions in 2016/17 * The ongoing strategic relevance and cost-effectiveness of all floating/peripatetic support services will be reviewed between now and the end of the calendar year.

Housing (Wales) Act 2014 PART 2 HOMELESSNESS Chapter 1: Homelessness Reviews & Strategies First Strategy to be adopted in 2018 and then produced 4-yearly Chapter 2: Help for people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness

Section 60 (Advice duty) Universal duty to provide advice information and assistance in accessing help. Section 62 (Assessment duty) Duty to assess if applying for help and appears to be homeless or threatened with homelessness within 56 days.

Section 66 (Prevention duty) Duty to take reasonable steps to help prevent an applicant becoming homeless (having regard to the need to make best use of available Council resources). Section 68 (Interim duty) Duty to secure accommodation for homeless applicants in priority need.

Section 73 (Relief duty) Duty to help secure accommodation for homeless applicants for up to 56 days. Section 75 (Final Duty) Duty to secure accommodation for applicants in priority need

Where do SPPG funded services fit in? Section 60 Housing Options staff may signpost or refer through Gateways/Hubs. Section 66 Personal Housing Plans may refer for accommodation and/or support as a reasonable step.

Section 73/75 May discharge duty into supported housing or Housing Associations/private rented secctor tenancy with Floating Support.

Note: NPT’s Strategic Relevance Assessment methodology includes consideration of the extent to which an SPPG funded service contributes to the discharge of these duties (as well as any other owed by the Social Care Health & Housing directorate - eg those coming next year under the Social Services & Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014)

The 1 st. 6 months in NPT since the new leg. kicked in: Total approaches1,008 Re-approaches within 6 months667% Known to Social Services Prison releases % 9% Universal Advice.. duty only43443% Assessment and PHP completed57457% Interim duty to provide temp. accomm. owed539% Final duty to accommodate owed265% THE REMAINDER *54854% * SPPG funded services could therefore have a role to play in over 1,000 cases a year

QUESTIONS: COULD GENERIC LOCALITY-BASED SERVICES CONCURRENTLY DELIVER ON BOTH OF THESE PREVENTION AGENDAS? WOULD THE SUPPORT ON DEMAND MODEL OF DELIVERY WORK IN THIS CONTEXT? IS THERE A REGIONAL DIMENSION TO ANY OF THIS THAT CAN DELIVER CASHABLE LOCAL SAVINGS OR HAS OTHER DEMONSTRABLE LOCAL BENEFITS? IF SO COULD WE PILOT THIS BY CO-LOCATING EXISTING SERVICES IN CROSS-BOUNDARY HUBS?