Tender: Ealing Council: Reablement Service Review and Business Case for Adults Under 65

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Ealing Council is seeking a contractor to review and strengthen its in-house reablement and enablement offer for adults under 65 and to develop an evidence-based business case for further investment. PCH provided Ealing with support to look at working-age adults at home (July 25 – Feb 26) and those outputs will be available to the appointed contractor. The contractor will work with the council’s in-house reablement team to develop a practical plan to broaden the scope of provision and strengthen staff skills, propose evidence-based recommendations to better meet the needs of working-age adults and help prevent people drifting into long-term adult social care, explore how a stronger reablement and recovery focus could reduce reliance on long-term care (particularly following poor mental health or hospital admission), identify current staff skills and knowledge gaps and produce a workforce plan, recommend adaptations to existing services and support mechanisms to be more responsive to working-age adults, and carry out further work on functional occupational therapy assessments for people with learning disabilities, autistic people, and people with mental health needs including support to sustain employment. The council will also be supported to review current supported living/extra care provision and findings from that work will be shared at touch points to strengthen the contractor’s recommendations.