Issue - meetings

Background:

This report reviewed the progress of the Young People’s Community Substance Misuse Service in Medway contract. This contract had been awarded to Open Road by Cabinet on 13 May 2014 on a 3 years + 2 years option to extend basis.

The service included:

·         early intervention for vulnerable young people;

·         named drug worker with the Youth Offending Team;

·         one-to-one support and treatment;

·         support for young people who require prescribing and needle exchange services provided by Medway’s Adult Integrated Substance Misuse Service; 

·         Drug Use Screening Tool (DUST) training for the wider children’s workforce and consultation for professionals and parents/carers;

·         defined processes to ensure that the Child Assessment Framework (CAF) and Team around the Child (TAC) are followed;

·         a robust transition policy for 19 year olds transferring to adult services;

·         protocols for working with mental health services for those young people with dual diagnosis.

This report had been approved for submission to the Cabinet after review and discussion at the Children and Adults Directorate Management Team meeting on 22 December 2015 and the Procurement Board on 17 February 2016.

An exempt appendix contained key financial analysis information.

Reasons:

The client department is satisfied that the provider has met the outcomes/outputs from Gateway 1 and has delivered against a number of the objectives set out as part of the original tender specification and as part of the Gateway 3 contract award process, however progress against further improvements agreed with the provider should be reviewed in 6 months’ time.