The client currently resides at a residential home in Oldham, this was intended to be a temporary placement found following the client being unable to continue to live with their sister due to carer breakdown following physical incidents. Due to presenting behaviours impacting on other residents in the home, the provider is unable to meet the clients needs there and have unfortunately had to serve notice on the placement. The notice period expired 29/09/2025. Further residential placements have been explored in borough, however all homes explored within Oldham cannot accept the client due to his behaviours or having no vacancies.
The Oldham process for supported living vacancies has been explored however there are currently no suitable vacancies available.
The residential home that has been identified for the client was found through conversations with their existing provider as they manage another residential home within the Rochdale area that could meet their needs on a permanent basis under the urgent circumstances with understanding of his current presenting behaviours. This alternative placement was sourced by the Social Worker outside of the GM Provider framework approach, as it was needed urgently to prevent further escalation of behaviours and to reduce risk to other residents, with consideration to distance from Oldham.
The out of borough check has been completed and has not raised any concerns.
To ensure that Oldham has a dedicated community outreach service addressing genetics risk in affected communities.
The service offers culturally sensitive and appropriate support to communities across Oldham, working closely with families affected by genetic conditions and promoting awareness of genetic risks within these communities.
This Oldham resident has a diagnosis of advanced Alzheimer's Dementia and has been living with this condition since 2021. They are at a stage now where they require a placement that can meet and manage their complex needs, as they require 3 - 4 staff members with safe hold training to manage any type of intervention.
They have been on an Older People's Mental Health ward since July 2025 and had treatment for their condition. The resident has now been assessed as fully optimised regarding their mental and physical health and they have been ready for discharge, since September 2025.
This placement is required due to the level of specialist care this resident needs, I approached several placements in and around Oldham, some placements stated they had no availability, some said they had residents with a similar type of presentation and others stated they could not meet their required needs. Acer Mews were recommended via Church Walk, Rochdale who had no availability but are under the same company Exemplar Care. Acer Mews were able to go to the ward and assesses, this resulted in the resident being accepted with the additional wants / wishes from the family as the resident requires a smaller unit (only 15 places on unit), spacious and has various 'quiet spaces' that meet this resident's needs.
As such this placement was deemed to be the right environment for them and their family agreed. It was felt that delaying the discharge would not be in the persons best interests, and to proceed with this placement rather than commence sourcing an alternative placement via the GM Framework as this would take a further two months to be discharged whilst the GM framework is followed. This is in line with the discharge planning from the multidisciplinary meeting on the ward, and family's wishes and is person centred and resident focused.
The placement at Acer Mews is in a good travelling distance from the resident's wife who has daily contact with her husband. It is important that she keeps these links with the resident as they have just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
The wife is happy with the proposed placement, and she is distraught at the prospect of a further delay, keeping her husband on the ward and having to look at another placement, when they have already accepted the placement prior to the allocated worker being mh.ade aware of the GM framework.
To note, as the Oldham resident has been ready for discharge from the ward for some time, he remains vulnerable due to the risk from acutely unwell patients he currently resides with.
Parent Infant Mental Health Services as part of the Family Hubs Offer
Oldham's Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationship long term goals are:
o Children and Parents: Improve parent-infant relationships, resulting in positive impact on developmental outcomes for babies
o System level: Promote the importance of good parent-infant relationships and parent infant mental health -PIMH- across the Oldham Partnership.
Oldham's Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationship medium term goals are:
o Children and Parents:
- Improve parents' sensitivity and responsiveness to their infants, as evidenced through the agreed measurement tool
- Improve relationship between infants and their parents, as evidenced through the agreed measurement tool
- Improve parental and infant mental health, as evidenced through the agreed measurement tool
- Increase access to information, advice, and guidance on PIMH support (e.g., digital or F2F).
Strategic Energy Partnership - Consultancy Support
Consultancy services to support the Council in progressing the development of specific parts of its strategy and document set in relation to the Oldham Green New Deal Strategic Energy Partnership. The services are required over a period of approximately 12 weeks (January - March 2026).
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The service user (SU) is currently residing in Semi- independent accommodation, arranged through children's services. However the SU requires a DOLs to be put in place to keep her safe, which cannot be done in the current placement.
The risks have increased significantly in the current placement and the SU is unable to be kept safe at their current placement (due to being unable to implement a DOLs) therefore an emergency placement has had to be sourced.
The Transitions Social Worker has contacted the provider directly and they have agreed to support the SU in their supported living in Oldham.
It has been agreed by all involved professionals that an emergency application to the court of protection is needed to enforce the DOLs therefore an urgent placement has been sourced with the required level of supervision available immediately at the new placement.
Recruitment of an Interim Deputy Director of Adult Social Care
Requirement for an Interim Deputy Director of Adult Social Care for 6 months.
It is expected that the interim Deputy DASS may be needed for between 3 to 6 months in order to allow for the recruitment of the permanent post holder, any incoming post holder notice period and a suitable handover period.
Oral Health Care Provision to support Adult Care providers in the Oldham Borough (PSR Direct Award Option C - Intent to award notice)
Local Authorities have a statutory duty to provide or commission oral health improvement programmes to improve the health of the local population, to the extent they consider appropriate. Oral diseases, including the most common oral health conditions - tooth decay and gum disease- are largely preventable. Despite this, the impact of poor oral health locally, nationally and globally is huge. In the UK context, treatment of oral health conditions cost the NHS over £3 billion per year but the cost to society is even greater.
Among older adults in residential care, poor oral hygiene can lead to aspirated pneumonia and malnutrition and dehydration, which in turn can lead to urinary tract infection. It vital that Oldham has a dedicated provision in place to support vulnerable older adults.
Following the expiry of the previous Electrical Maintenance & Repair contract the Council requires 6 - 12 months to tender for, and implement a new long term solution for the requirements of Electrical Repair & Maintenance.
As permitted under section 41, 2 the Council intends to award an interim contract for between 6 - 12 months, for a value up to £200,000 to Corlett Electrical Engineering Co (1981).
It is anticipated the interim contract will commence during July 2025.
The Council will be procuring a longer term solution later this year.
The RSI Navigator service ensures that we are working towards ending rough sleeping within the borough and is based on assisting with the delivering of the three principles identified in the Oldham Rough Sleeping Plan;
1. Prevention - Stopping people sleeping rough for the first time.
2. Intervention - Support to those currently sleeping rough to move off the streets.
3. Recovery - Support to those who have slept rough to ensure they don't return to the streets
The RSI Navigator is tasked with sourcing accommodation and building effective networks of support for rough sleepers in the borough.
The RSI Navigator is key to tenancy sustainment for the cohort of identified entrenched rough sleepers. The ongoing support provided by the RSI Navigator continues through their journey in temporary accommodation schemes such as A Bed Every Night (ABEN) and stays with them when they are housed in an independent tenancy, in either the social or private sector.
This RSI Navigator funding is provided by GMCA and runs from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, at a cost of £49,372.
ABEN was established in 2018 offering "no second night out" access to accommodation for individuals who are currently rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping in Greater Manchester.
In Oldham, the local authority receives grant funding from GMCA to provide 23 (including one emergency bed) bed spaces, and a further 6 spaces for individuals with no recourse to public funds. ABEN has now been operating for over 5 years and remains a
central pillar and safety net for people experiencing, or at risk of, rough sleeping. Since 2022, the landscape for
homelessness, rough sleeping and poverty has changed considerably across borough:
• Record high numbers of individuals approaching the Local Authority for support due to
being at risk of homelessness.
• Record numbers of households in Temporary Accommodation (over 698 at any one
point in time)
• Sustained increases in the number of people seen rough sleeping on a single night
• Sustained increases in the number of people receiving a Section 21, no-fault eviction.
• A changing migration/asylum landscape, with the accelerated asylum decision-making
process creating additional rough sleeping pressures across all 12 boroughs.