Newham Council has commissioned the Occupational Therapy Services in the London Borough of Newham since November 2018. The Care Act 2014 states that Occupational Therapists (OT's) are well placed to undertake assessment or review of an individual or carer with standard or complex support needs.
Occupational Therapy intervention is primarily preventative and the cost benefits associated with the provision of personalised home adaptations is well evidenced. OT's are effective at preventing, reducing or delaying the need for care and support based on a holistic picture of the individual or family, taking into consideration informal support networks and an asset-based approach which is complementary to maximising individual and community Resilience.
The overall outcome for Adult Services is to promote the wellbeing of people in Newham, making the best use of available resources to enable adults to live in the community independently and safely, free from abuse and neglect.
The Council has not been able to award the proposed Contract.
oneSource has been piloting different ways of contacting residents or businesses to remind them to pay debts owed to the respective services. This Communication Software Functionality pilot has been developed with TELsolutions, a cloud based software supplier used by a number of London Local Authorities as well as leading enforcement firms.
The Project will replace the current six mobile classrooms with a new purpose built facility which will accommodate the five existing classrooms along with a specialist Profound and Multiple Learning Disability resource provision.
This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The procurement is subject to the light-touch regime under Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services. Under Regulation 76 the Council is free to establish a procedure, provided that procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers).
Newham's Carers Strategy sets out a single, ambitious approach to improving the identification of and support to Carers across the borough at scale. The Council and its partners are looking for an experienced and innovative provider (or providers) to deliver Strengths-Based and highly accessible Carers support services and to drive forward the Carers Strategy outcomes. The service is divided into lots:
Lot 1) An online / virtual Carers Support service to provide comprehensive support to Adult Carers aged 18+ online and with the preferred addition of a telephone support option.
Lot 2) A Locally embedded all age-service (Young Carers, Parent Carers, Adult Carers) which will work with local Carers groups,Schools, Health providers, VCS and across our community as a whole to identify Carers, deliver direct support and enable them to navigate the range of local services that they need.
Suppliers will be able to apply for one or more lots, for example, Lot 1 only, Lot 2 only or both Lots 1 and 2.
The new service contract will go live on 1 April 2023 and will run for three years (with the option to extend on a two + two year basis, subject to satisfactory performance).
Total value for 7 years of contract is £1,785,000.00 excluding VAT divided in lots as per below:
Lot 1= £350,000 (50K pa)
Lot 2 = £1,435,000 (205K pa)
The London Borough of Newham (the Council) is seeking to appoint a Parks Fitness Programme specialist (Operator) to deliver a Parks Fitness Programme in the borough utilising parks and open spaces.
Newham's Parks Fitness programme is currently commissioned through a third sector organisation.
The new contract is offered for the period 12 months for work to be undertaken between 3rd April 2023 and 31 March 2024 (with a possible contract extension period of 12 months + 12 months).
The Newham Health and Care Partnership, through the London Borough of Newham (the Council), is seeking to procure a website developer to create and host the Well Newham Website. This will be a standalone website, developed in partnership with the Newham Health and Care Partnership, that is a central place for residents and professionals in the borough to find information on health and wellbeing services in Newham and Newham-focused health information.
This is an intervention commissioned for secondary settings in Newham. The intervention is a social skills training programme being procured to address the borough-wide concerns around exploitation harms, educational engagement, social and communication skills, and challenging behaviour which can leave children and young people vulnerable to serious youth violence.
Payment Acquiring Services
Face to Face (card holder present) and Card not present (CNP) Card acquiring, Gateway and alternative payment method (ATM services)
A recently published GLA study highlighted the needs, experiences and capacities of people seeking asylum in Newham (May 2022). Several needs were highlighted by the report including understanding the local area and its relationship to other parts of London as well as information about services and how to access them. Opportunities for English conversation to enable peer connection and help people navigate their new surroundings was seen as critical. Whilst people reported that the local community was friendly, kind and diverse, people did not feel part of their community or integrated. Some of the people interviewed answered that they would like to find English speaking friends and would like to know more about local activities.
Piloting a befriending service in Newham for asylum seekers and refugees enables us to test whether this type of intervention can provide some of the following support with the overall aim of strengthening feelings of safety, connection and control:
• Provide orientation and welcome to people arriving in Newham
• Provide opportunities to practice English
• Support access to local activities and service
• Promote independence and confidence building
The befriending service also provides an opportunity to encourage social integration in support of Newham's social integration strategy which is based on:
• relationships that promote shared experiences, building networks and quality interactions between groups, building understanding and trust
• participation that encourage residents to be active in civil society through volunteering and democratic participation
• equality for residents by overcoming barriers and challenges to work, support with ESOL and other skills
• evidence to measure and evaluate the impact of social integration in Newham.
The London Borough of Newham (Contracting Authority) procured for the provision of its property insurance in respect of private dwellings sold on a leasehold basis, the majority of
which were under the Right To Buy (RTB) legislation. The dwellings are flats in blocks and flats in houses (maisonettes), where the Contracting Authority still retain the freehold
ownership and the leases state that the Contracting Authority, as the Freeholder, will arrange the buildings insurance on behalf of the Leaseholder and recharge the premium as
part of the Service Charge. The portfolio comprises approximately 6,000 properties with a total sum insured of £1b. Other flats in some blocks have not been sold (Council tenanted) and are separately insured so insurance cover for these flats is not required.
The number of properties change in the course of an insurance year as a result of the exercise of new rights to buy and buy-back of properties mainly within the Contracting Authority's
regeneration area. The Contracting Authority's Insurance Department administers the process, including issuance and/or replacement of bespoke insurance documents.