Residential Care Homes Framework Re-Commissioning

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This site contains information relating to the re-commissioning of the Care Homes Framework for Older People and Life Long Services.

Please also take time to have a look at the Adults' Social Care Commissioning Strategy, a link to which can be found here:

Adults’ Social Care Commissioning Strategy 2023 to 2025 (westsussex.gov.uk)

Thank you for your continued support in providing residential and nursing care services to the residents of West Sussex. We are writing to provide you with important updates on the Care Home Contracts and to invite you to a workshop to support future commissioning arrangements.

The Director of Adults and Health has approved a decision to continue contracting with existing care and nursing home providers supporting older people and adults with lifelong disabilities. A copy of the decision is available at the following link: OKD15 (24/25)

In recognition that the contract documents were out of date, at the end of last year you will have received a letter of variation to the terms and conditions of the contracts. In addition, the specification which forms part of the contract has now been revised making it a more inclusive, person centred and strengths based document that is applicable for all customer groups, whilst ensuring there are no material changes to the service delivery requirements. The letter of variation from October 2023 and the new service specification are attached. Please review these documents as these will apply to pre-existing and future placements made under the Care Homes Contract 2007 (Older People) and the Care Home Services for Adults with Learning Difficulties 2009.

Please note, by continuing to provide services under your contract with West Sussex County Council from 1st of October 2024, the Council will assume that you have accepted the variations to the terms and conditions and updated service specification.

A decision to continue contracting with current providers of the Care Home Services Contract for Adults with Mental Health Needs 2015 is proceeding through the Councils’ decision-making process and providers delivering under this contract will sent a further letter once this process is completed.

Co-producing future commissioning arrangements:

The Council will now be commencing planning future commissioning arrangements for residential and nursing homes, and is inviting all residential and nursing care home providers to an online workshop on either Monday 11th November or Wednesday 27th November at 11.00am -12.30pm to hear from you about what is working well, what challenges you currently face, how we can work together in the future and how we can engage customers and their families. You will only need to attend one workshop.

For more information and if you would like to attend a workshop, please the booking form below to reserve a place.

If you have any questions, please contact us at adultscommissioning@westsussex.gov.uk.

Alternate formats

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us on 01243 777100 or email us at EasternGatewayWorks@westsussex.gov.uk. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 777100.

For more information about the accessibility of this website, please see our Accessibility tab (opens in new window) at the foot of the page.


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West Sussex County Council may use this survey to collect some personal data (e.g. email address) which is optional for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests, rights or freedoms of the data subject.

The data will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations and any subsequent data protection legislation. The data will not be shared with any third party but will be held securely on computer for a period of up to 1 year. West Sussex County Council is registered as a Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further information, please see the West Sussex County Council Privacy Statement (opens in new window).

This site contains information relating to the re-commissioning of the Care Homes Framework for Older People and Life Long Services.

Please also take time to have a look at the Adults' Social Care Commissioning Strategy, a link to which can be found here:

Adults’ Social Care Commissioning Strategy 2023 to 2025 (westsussex.gov.uk)

Thank you for your continued support in providing residential and nursing care services to the residents of West Sussex. We are writing to provide you with important updates on the Care Home Contracts and to invite you to a workshop to support future commissioning arrangements.

The Director of Adults and Health has approved a decision to continue contracting with existing care and nursing home providers supporting older people and adults with lifelong disabilities. A copy of the decision is available at the following link: OKD15 (24/25)

In recognition that the contract documents were out of date, at the end of last year you will have received a letter of variation to the terms and conditions of the contracts. In addition, the specification which forms part of the contract has now been revised making it a more inclusive, person centred and strengths based document that is applicable for all customer groups, whilst ensuring there are no material changes to the service delivery requirements. The letter of variation from October 2023 and the new service specification are attached. Please review these documents as these will apply to pre-existing and future placements made under the Care Homes Contract 2007 (Older People) and the Care Home Services for Adults with Learning Difficulties 2009.

Please note, by continuing to provide services under your contract with West Sussex County Council from 1st of October 2024, the Council will assume that you have accepted the variations to the terms and conditions and updated service specification.

A decision to continue contracting with current providers of the Care Home Services Contract for Adults with Mental Health Needs 2015 is proceeding through the Councils’ decision-making process and providers delivering under this contract will sent a further letter once this process is completed.

Co-producing future commissioning arrangements:

The Council will now be commencing planning future commissioning arrangements for residential and nursing homes, and is inviting all residential and nursing care home providers to an online workshop on either Monday 11th November or Wednesday 27th November at 11.00am -12.30pm to hear from you about what is working well, what challenges you currently face, how we can work together in the future and how we can engage customers and their families. You will only need to attend one workshop.

For more information and if you would like to attend a workshop, please the booking form below to reserve a place.

If you have any questions, please contact us at adultscommissioning@westsussex.gov.uk.

Alternate formats

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us on 01243 777100 or email us at EasternGatewayWorks@westsussex.gov.uk. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 777100.

For more information about the accessibility of this website, please see our Accessibility tab (opens in new window) at the foot of the page.


Privacy statement

West Sussex County Council may use this survey to collect some personal data (e.g. email address) which is optional for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests, rights or freedoms of the data subject.

The data will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations and any subsequent data protection legislation. The data will not be shared with any third party but will be held securely on computer for a period of up to 1 year. West Sussex County Council is registered as a Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further information, please see the West Sussex County Council Privacy Statement (opens in new window).

Page last updated: 31 Oct 2024, 01:53 PM