Approved Supplier List (ASL) for the Provision of Residential Care Home Services for Older People on the Isle of Wight

In 2017 Isle of Wight Council published Care Close to Home: A New Strategy for Adult Social Care. This set out a vision to help people to maintain or improve their wellbeing and to live as independently as possible. This element of the specification identifies the service the Council is seeking for the provider to deliver and the detail around that service.

Prior to December 2019 the Council's contracts with providers for residential care home services contained considerable detail about the tasks to be delivered as part of the service. The Council has engaged with the care home market and from December 2019 wishes to contract on the basis of outcomes. This is intended to enable providers more latitude to modernise care home services to meet emerging needs and expectations, and to exercise more flexibility in the use of resources to achieve outcomes in the context of continuing restraints on local authority budgets.