Adults Mental Health Lot 3 - Framework Agreement for Supported Living in Norfolk

Norfolk County Council has established a multi supplier framework agreement for the provision of supported living accommodation and support. This application is for LOT 3 – Mental Health and is for providers to support people with complex and enduring mental health. Successful Providers for Lot 3 will provide supported living care and support packages for individuals to enable them to live in the community with support. Norfolk County Council envisages developing different types of housing-based provision for adults with mental health problems. In some schemes the nature of support will be oversight, practical and emotional support. Other schemes may require the provision of personal care and for such sche

This application is for LOT 3 – Mental Health and is for providers to support people with complex and enduring mental health. This Framework for Mental Health Supported Living is part of a wider piece of work for commissioners with our market and partners to establish clearer recovery pathways and options for people with serious mental health problems. We want to support more people to live independently.As part of the work we wish to collaborate with providers to ensure that there is an improved approach to assuring quality in mental health supported living services.Currently we do not have sufficient information about what represents fair and cost-effective pricing for our mental health supported living provision. We wish to work with providers and the market to establish prices which will enable the provision of effective and good quality care, but which will also be sustainable for the commissioners and providers. We are asking applicants to this Framework to give us prospective prices but will work with Framework providers to introduce consistent pricing for mental health supported living.The intention is also to look to transition our existing supported living provision to the framework Successful Providers for Lot 3 will provide supported living care and support packages for individuals to enable them to live in the community with support. Norfolk County Council envisages developing different types of housing-based provision for adults with mental health problems. In some schemes the nature of support will be oversight, practical and emotional support. Other schemes may require the provision of personal care and for such schemes the provider may need to may need to register that scheme with CQC.We reserve the right to update the Framework Agreement and all schedules or to add new lots where requirements have not been identified at the outset of this Framework. If we update any documents or add new lots in this way, we will issue a notice to all Providers already on the Framework stating that a new specification/lot is available and give all Providers already on the Framework an opportunity to state whether they wish to provide the new requirement. Additional information: We reserve the right to update the framework agreement and all schedules or to add new lots where requirements have not been identified at the outset of this framework