- Who are the domiciliary care providers that are currently registered with Sandwell Council?
The domiciliary care providers currently registered with Sandwell Council are as follows:
All & Small Ltd
Allied Healthcare
Alternative Care
Aspects Care Ltd
Careview
Carewatch
Causeway Care
Charter
Cherish Home Care
Claimar
Clamoore Home Based Care Ltd
Crossroads Care
Dorcas Home Care
Excel Support Services
Focus Futures (part of Midland Heart)
L & A
New Hope Health and Home Care Services Ltd
Proline
Sandwell Asian Family Support Service
Sandwell Multi Care
Selborne Care
Sevacare (UK)
Smethwick ASRA
Theo Langston Care
Tipton Home Care
Victoria Visiting Venture
West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre
West Midlands Home Based Care
- I believe you have a contracted list (block & spot contracts)
and then a secondary registered list, which providers are on each
list?
You refer to a contracted list of block and spot contracts, and then a secondary list. The Council let its Contracts for non specialist domiciliary care in 2004 and these have been extended a number of times. The Providers, of which there are 11, have spot Contracts although they each are commissioned to deliver a share of any given non specialist work within two towns in Sandwell. These 11 Providers are as follows:
All and Small
Allied Healthcare
Alternative Care
Carewatch
Charter Care
Claimar Care
L&A Care
Proline
Tipton Homecare
West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre
West Midlands Hombased Care
Block Contract Providers are the following:
Causeway Care
Sandwell Crossroads
Seva Care
Smethwick Asra
VVV
West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre
The registered list you refer to identifies those organisations who have been approved via a formal process to provide non residential care services. These providers do not have any guarantees of work and would be commissioned on a spot basis. I attach a list, which includes other non-residential services.
3. When does the current set of contracts for providers for spot &
block expire?
In terms of the 11 providers who deliver non-specialist work, their Contracts expire on 31st August 2010. However, whilst this is the date of expiry, there may be an extension.
The Block Contracts listed expire as follows:
ACRC – 31.08.2010
Causeway Care – 31.03.2011
Smethwick Asra – 30.09.2010
Sandwell Crossroads – 30.09.2010
VVV – 30.09.2010
Seva Care – 08.10.2010
4. Is a domiciliary care provider required to be on your list to provide
care to the PCT or people via Direct Payments?
I am afraid you will need to contact the PCT directly to establish the way they commission services. In terms of this Authority giving people a Direct payment, we would give people a list of the approved providers if they wanted assistance in relation to domiciliary agencies, but as it is money paid directly to the individual, s/he is entitled to use whatever agency s/he wants, irrespective of whether they appear on the approved provider list.
5. What is the maximum, minimum and mean price that each provider
charges Sandwell Council?
I am afraid I am unable to provide information in relation to individual providers and there prices; however, I attach a spreadsheet anonymised with the prices identified. This is current at the time of writing. We are expecting a further few providers to get back to us to update costs, but they have not at the moment.
In terms of the rates for those providers awarded the non-specialist contracts, they are fixed prices as follows:
1 hour - £13.04
¾ hour - £9.78
½ hour - £6.52
¼ hour - £3.26
6. Could I have a hierarchal diagram of the roles within Adult
Services?
Please see attached structure charts. The charts drill down to manager
level. In respect of the administrative structure it is not possible to provide
a breakdown as the service is currently subject to a restructure. What we
can however confirm is that we have a structure of business support
officers throughout the organisation who are managed by business support
co-ordinators.
7. Is there going to be any significant change in the future to the
way you procure to these providers?
As you may be aware, there are currently many changes within the social care market, the introduction of Personal Budgets will undoubtedly change the way in which services are commissioned and procured in the future. The Council is reviewing its position in regard to contracting and where appropriate seeking to move away from Block Contracts, thus ensuring the ability of People Who Use Services to fully determine which providers support them.
8. Is there going to be any significant change in the future to
Adults Services in terms of procurement to domiciliary
Providers?
In accordance with the answer given above, it is likely that there will be changes in the procurement of Domiciliary Care Services; however, at present these have not been determined.
If you are not satisfied with the way your information request has been responded to you may ask for the decision to be reviewed by writing to the:
Service Insight Team
Freedom of Information Request
Sandwell MBC
Sandwell Council House
P O Box 2374
Oldbury
West Midlands
B69 3DE
Tel: - 0845 359 7510
Email:
Adult and Community Services
Senior Management Structure – August 2009