Agenda item

This report seeks approval of the Care and Support Commissioning Strategy.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Adults and Health Select Committee)

RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet approves the Care and Support Commissioning Strategy for Extra Care Housing at Surrey County Council owned sites.

Reasons for Decisions:

Tackling health inequality and empowering our communities are two of the Council’s four strategic priorities. It is essential that the care and support provided by ASC enables us to deliver our Community Vision for 2030 and promotes the independence of the individual in all scenarios. We know that getting older and living longer is something we should all look forward to. However, living a healthy life and living well for yourself, including staying in your own home, can be more difficult for some people. Our Living Well in Later Life Commissioning Strategy for Older People – Living Well in Later Life – 2021-2030 is our plan to help support older people in Surrey to make this happen. It shows how we will help residents to have more choice and control over the care and support they need, when and where they need it.

A key component of Our Living Well in Later Life Strategy are our plans to deliver Accommodation with Care and Support: Extra Care Housing, which will provide Surrey’s residents with suitable accommodation with care and support, where they can access the right health and social care at the right time in the right place. 

Extra Care Housing is a housing with care model, with a separation in responsibilities between the operators of each setting and the dedicated providers commissioned to deliver care and support to each setting’s residents. For the settings which will be delivered through the Accommodation with Care and Support Strategy, while the operators will be regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and deliver high quality housing management in line with the Council’s lease, the care providers will be regulated by the Care Quality Commission and separately commissioned through Adult Social Care contracts. In Annex 1 we provide a diagram which demonstrates the relationship between the different partner organisation involved in the delivery of Extra Care Housing.

The Care and Support Commissioning Strategy for Extra Care Housing sets out the Council’s approach to securing high quality, sustainable support through CQC-regulated care providers, and will ensure that future residents in the new settings ‘live their best lives’.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Adults and Health Select Committee)

The report was introduced by the Cabinet Member for Adults and Health who stated that it was essential that the care and support provided by adult social care enabled the council to deliver its Community Vision for 2030 and promote the independence of the individual in all scenarios. In July 2019 Cabinet endorsed the Accommodation with Care and Support Strategy. A major programme within the strategy is the delivery of 725 units of affordable Extra Care Housing for older people by 2030. Since then the council have plans in place to deliver circa 370 units across six sites in Surrey. The Care and Support Commissioning Strategy for Extra Care Housing sets out the Council’s approach to securing high quality, sustainable support through CQC-regulated care providers, and will ensure that future residents in the new settings ‘live their best lives’. The dedicated on-site care providers will support Extra Care Housing residents with personal care and other support for people to remain independent.

RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet approves the Care and Support Commissioning Strategy for Extra Care Housing at Surrey County Council owned sites.

Reasons for Decisions:

Tackling health inequality and empowering our communities are two of the Council’s four strategic priorities. It is essential that the care and support provided by ASC enables us to deliver our Community Vision for 2030 and promotes the independence of the individual in all scenarios. We know that getting older and living longer is something we should all look forward to. However, living a healthy life and living well for yourself, including staying in your own home, can be more difficult for some people. Our Living Well in Later Life Commissioning Strategy for Older People – Living Well in Later Life – 2021-2030 is our plan to help support older people in Surrey to make this happen. It shows how we will help residents to have more choice and control over the care and support they need, when and where they need it.

A key component of Our Living Well in Later Life Strategy are our plans to deliver Accommodation with Care and Support: Extra Care Housing, which will provide Surrey’s residents with suitable accommodation with care and support, where they can access the right health and social care at the right time in the right place. 

Extra Care Housing is a housing with care model, with a separation in responsibilities between the operators of each setting and the dedicated providers commissioned to deliver care and support to each setting’s residents. For the settings which will be delivered through the Accommodation with Care and Support Strategy, while the operators will be regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and deliver high quality housing management in line with the Council’s lease, the care providers will be regulated by the Care Quality Commission and separately commissioned through Adult Social Care contracts. In Annex 1 we provide a diagram which demonstrates the relationship between the different partner organisation involved in the delivery of Extra Care Housing.

The Care and Support Commissioning Strategy for Extra Care Housing sets out the Council’s approach to securing high quality, sustainable support through CQC-regulated care providers, and will ensure that future residents in the new settings ‘live their best lives’.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Adults and Health Select Committee)