Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
The Living Well and Early Help Service (LWEH)
was established to help the island address some of the demographic
challenges which present themselves. One in five of the population
is over the age of eighty years old, and there is higher than
national average population of adults with learning disabilities on
the Isle of Wight.
The significant challenge of ensuring adults on the island gain or
regain the right levels of independence, to meet their own
objectives is key to sustaining people away from statutory services
both at a health need and social need level.
Over 55% of older people living on the island do not meet the
financial threshold to receive state funded social care, so they
are required to make their own arrangements. Over 40% of those
people who approach Adult Social Care for help are deemed not to be
eligible for statutory care.
The importance to have a holistic service to meet the optimum need
of individuals not eligible for statutory services, ensures
individuals have sustainable care journeys within our community and
with minimal statutory service input.
The service is jointly commissioned and funded by the Isle of Wight
Council and the NHS Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight
Clinical Commissioning Group.
The matter to be considered is the continuation of the Local
Authority funding contribution for the service.
Option 1 - Commence formal reshaping and tendering of the Living Well and Early Help Service for Adults with a revised service specification, which reflects the feedback provided by local people and stakeholders, as part of the recent consultation and regular reporting from the current providers. To offer a contract for a three-year initial term, with the option to review and extend for up to a further two years. The three-year contract for the recommissioning of a Living Well and Early Help service would ensure that the service is developed to meet the needs of our Islands residents for the future and to encourage our local voluntary sector partners to bid for the contract opportunity, as there will be greater certainty in terms of funding.
Report author: Alaster Sims
Publication date: 27/10/2021
Date of decision: 25/10/2021
Decided at meeting: 25/10/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 04/11/2021
Accompanying Documents: