Voluntary Action Lewisham

Support Planning Service (Pilot)

The London Borough of Lewisham invites expressions of interest from suitably experienced providers, with extensive knowledge of the borough who wish to provide a proposal for a pilot to deliver Support Planning as part of  Lewisham’s Self Directed Support (SDS) trial for citizens.... read more.

In January 2010, Dr. Danny Ruta, Joint Director of Public Health for NHS Lewisham and LB Lewisham undertook outreach visits to 170 Health Project in New Cross, Pensioner Forum based in Lewisham and Carers Lewisham located in Forest Hill. He was accompanied by Liz Dart, Interim Head of Community and Neighbourhood Development, LB Lewisham, and VAL Health Inequalities and Social Care Officer Rosalind John.

Danny states

“We were all impressed with the incredible enthusiasm, commitment and quality of the work being undertaken and support being offered. I am particularly grateful to Sheena, Sharon, Doris and Kerry for their time and I am looking forward very much to working more closely with them and their colleagues to improve the wellbeing of people in Lewisham.”

The Health Inequalities and Social Care Project(HISCP) is in the process of working towards a planned programme of outreach visits to different health and social care VCS projects and organisations in the coming months. These will include those projects that have already contacted us and expressed an interest in being visited. If you would like to be visited in the near future please contact Rosalind.

We can also confirm that Danny has agreed to undertake annual outreach visits to meet other VCS groups and projects in Lewisham. Watch this space!

The London borough of Southwark on behalf of the Southwark and Lewisham Supporting People partnerships are inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to tender for inclusion on
a Joint Framework Agreement.

The Framework Agreement will establish a list of preferred suppliers for Supporting People accommodation based and floating/community based services. A number of service lots will be created that will be used for the future procurement of Supporting People services.

The Framework Agreement will have a term of four years and the primary authorities intend to procure the majority of their Supporting People services under the framework. Each participating authority will award and enter into a separate service contract with a provider when procuring services from the Framework.

The London boroughs of Lambeth and Bromley will be participating in the Framework Agreement as secondary authorities.

Any organisation wishing to become a preferred provider for these services must formally express an interest by completing a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).

Organisations that have been accredited by the participating authorities under Exor, and hold a current contract with one or more of the participating authorities, will be passported through the PQQ stage, although they must submit an expression of interest using the PQQ, in order to be considered for the future provision of Supporting People services.

Organisations may be experienced providers of housing support and social care services, voluntary and community based organisations with experience of welfare related services or private organisations. All will however need to be able to demonstrate the ability to produce positive outcomes for a diverse range of service users. Southwark
Council welcomes expressions of interest from individual organisations, partnerships or consortia and the successful organisations will be expected to be able to work positively in partnership with a range of other stakeholders.

To express an interest to participate in the tender please contact Southwark Supporting People on 020 7525 0576 or email supporting.people@southwark.gov.uk by 12 noon, Friday May 8 to request an information pack and Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).