Hull City Council Regional Champions Joint Commissioning

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Hull City Council Regional Champions Joint
Commissioning

• Liz TurnerSP Manager Hull City Council
• Daemon CartwrightYoung People Support Service
  Manager
• John GlentonEnglish Churches Housing Group

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Hull SP Programme

• Programme grant 11 million
• Admin grant 240k
• Health contribution 27k
• Audit Commission Inspection, Feb 2005 1 Star,
  Promising Prospects

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Regional Champions - Joint Commissioning

• Why Hull?
• Strong SP Partnership
• Joint Working shared responsibility
• Positive practice / successful outcomes

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Why we have an Excellent Partnership

• SP Team Investment in building confidence in Hull
  City Council
• Trust
• Transparent
• Involvement from all partners

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Joint Working

• Older People Delivery Board
• Mental Health Housing Group
• Regional Offender Management Forum
• Young Peoples Action Forum
• Homeless Strategy Group
• Housing Strategy Focus Group

• JCG Substance Misuse
• Valuing people Learning Disability Partnership
  Board - Chair Housing Subgroup
• Teenage Parents Advisory Group
• Respect Delivery Board
• Intensive Family Support Steering Group

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Joint Commissioning Projects

• Clear View - Dual Diagnosis Project
• Ambrose Court - Learning Disability Service
• Fully furnished dispersed accommodation for young
  people and homeless people.
• Kingston Project - Emergency access accommodation
  for young people aged 15-17.

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Clear View - Dual Diagnosis Project

• 14 units of drug free accommodation support for
  people with a dual diagnosis mental health /
  substance misuse/intensive support needs
• Housing Corp Capital funding awarded in 2002
• Joint needs assessment - Humber Mental Health
  Trust, Housing Strategy, Supporting People
  Strategy
• Delayed development identifying sites,
  obtaining planning permission.

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Clear View - Dual Diagnosis Project

• Joint agency commitment
• Health
• Probation
• Drug Action Team
• Supporting People
• Cross Authority
• Adult Social Services

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Clear View - Service Development

• Strategic Steering Group, representation from
• PCT
• Drug Action Team
• Adult Services
• Humber Mental Health Trust
• Hull Prison

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Clear View - Service Development

• Operational Steering Group
• Practitioners from all agencies plus service
  users
• Developed referral criteria and information
• Developing shared monitoring / outcomes

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Clear View - Lessons Learnt

• Need initial protocol for joint partner
  commitment
• Project Manager
• Hard work - persevere
• Substantial benefits

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Stepping Up (Young People) Springboard
(Homeless People)

• Developed as a result of hostel closure
• Needs identified in conjunction with partners
• Service user involvement SP Team/YPSS
• Dispersed accommodation (fully furnished)

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Stepping Up (Young People) Springboard
(Homeless People)

• Stepping Up 15 units of fully furnished
  dispersed accommodation and support for Young
  People
• Springboard 19 units of fully furnished
  dispersed accommodation and support for homeless
  people

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Stepping Up (Young People) Springboard
(Homeless People)

• Open tender
• Partners involved in tender evaluation
• English Churches Housing Group successful in
  tender bid

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Setting up Springboard Stepping Up

• Steering group set up, including Young Peoples
  Support Service, DAT, Homeless Section
• Consultation event held with young people to
  choose service name
• Homeless people involved in steering group.
• Property access from Hull City Council and other
  Housing Associations
• Accommodation furnished with capital funding from
  the DAT

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Referral Routes

• Single point of referral through Young Peoples
  Support Service
• Shared assessment/discussion

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Joint Working

• Drug Action Team funds housing and treatment link
  worker
• Ineligible care services successful funding
  retraction April 2007
• Adult Services shared understanding/
  responsibility
• Single Point of referral Young People Teenage
  Parents

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Next Steps Regional Champions

• Full Evaluation of service developments / lessons
  learnt
• Developing protocols / useful information /
  documents joint commissioning.
• Workshops on joint commissioning in Hull

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Contact Details

• Supporting People Team
• 3rd Floor Stonefield House
• 16-20 King Edward Street
• Hull HU1 3SS
• Telephone [phone]
• Email supporting.people_at_hullcc.gov.uk