The recommendations were amended and agreed.

DECISION

1.            To agree commencement of a procurement process to secure provision of the Mental Health Recovery & Wellbeing Service from April 2016

2.            To authorise the Director of Adult Services to finalise the overall service design, after consultation with the Lead Member and Mayor.

3.            That a report on the final awarding of the contract be brought back to Cabinet for decision.

4.            To agree to extend the two existing contracts with Mind in Tower Hamlets and Working Well Trust detailed in Table 2 in paragraph 3.9 of the report until 31st March 2016.

5.            To note that funding is already approved within the existing mental health base budget for 2016/17 and no funding reductions are proposed.

Councillor Amy Whitelock Gibbs, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services, introduced the report. She explained that the report proposed reshaping commissioned mental health services from 17 separate contracts into a single lead provider/sub-contractor model to make the services more co-ordinated and better able to meet the needs of users. She highlighted that the proposals had been developed following user feedback and consultation with health providers and that no funding cuts were proposed.

She requested that a change be made to the recommendations to ensure that a report be brought back to Cabinet before the final contracts were awarded.

The Mayor welcomed the report, noted the pre-scrutiny questions and agreed the recommendations subject to the proposed amendment.

RESOLVED

1.            To agree commencement of a procurement process to secure provision of the Mental Health Recovery & Wellbeing Service from April 2016

2.            To authorise the Director of Adult Services to finalise the overall service design, after consultation with the Lead Member and Mayor.

3.            That a report on the final awarding of the contract be brought back to Cabinet for decision.

4.            To agree to extend the two existing contracts with Mind in Tower Hamlets and Working Well Trust detailed in Table 2 in paragraph 3.9 of the report until 31st March 2016.

5.            To note that funding is already approved within the existing mental health base budget for 2016/17 and no funding reductions are proposed.