Care and Support Prisons

Description

Staffordshire County Council has
recommissioned the current Personalised Care and
Support in prisons (and in approved premises) in
the County of Staffordshire which is due to expire
31/03/2025. The purpose of the Service is for
suitably qualified care providers to deliver Care and
Support to all Prisons and Approved Premises on a
Guaranteed Hours basis. Spot Purchase hours will
be considered and agreed with the Council once
the Guaranteed Hours have been spent. The
Service will enable Service Users to achieve their
identified outcomes to improve their independence
and achieve and maintain their desired strength
based, personalised outcomes in relation to their
physical, emotional, social, and mental wellbeing.
The Council aims to ensure improve Service Users
remain as independent as possible; have the
knowledge to make informed decisions; have
choice and be in control of decisions made about
their Care; be part of their community; receive
Support at the right time through a strength based
and personalised Service. The provider delivering
the Service, will aim to achieve the following
objectives: enhance the quality of life for Service
Users with Care and Support needs; delay and
reduce the need for Care and Support; ensure
Service Users have a positive experience of Care;
safeguard Service Users whose circumstances
make them vulnerable and protect them from
avoidable harm; improve and maintain Service
Users health and wellbeing through increased
independence, choice, control, dignity, and quality
of life; promote independence, and enable the
Service User to be an active member of society and
their community; provide a strength based support
Service, responsive to the needs and
circumstances of the Service Users; help maximise
independence after illness or disability through
working within a rehabilitation, reablement and
enablement philosophy; provide a high quality
Service in terms of access, the Service Users'
experience and outcomes based on evidence of
effectiveness; enable Service User satisfaction,
enabling Service Users to have a say in how
Support and Services could be developed in the
future, ensuring meaningful engagement that
enables Service Users to have a say about the
future development of Services. provide clear
information so that Service Users can make
informed choices.
The contract will run from 01/4/2025 to 31/03/2028
with the option to extend by a year to 31/03/2029.