Decisions

This report seeks approval of the award of contract for the Mental Health Individual Placement and Support employment services contract to Hestia Housing and Support.

The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model is an evidence-based approach supporting people with severe and common mental ill health into employment. The service is targeted at people using secondary mental health and NHS Talking Therapies services. It involves intensive, individual support, a rapid job search followed by placement in paid employment, and time-unlimited in-work support for both the employee and the employer.

The service provision is broken down into two separate elements:

Model 1: IPS in Camden secondary mental health teams

Model 2: IPS in Camden NHS Talking Therapies Service

Following a Competitive Process as permitted under the Provider Selection Regime 2023, officers are proposing to award the contract to the highest scoring provider, Hestia Housing and Support. The contract will commence on 1st April 2025 for a period of two years until 31st March 2027. The maximum value of the contract is £2,007,581.28, with the Model 1 element of the service costing £1,368,839.28 and the Model 2 element of the service costing £638,742.

The contract award report is being presented to the Executive Director, Adults and Health for approval in line with Contract Standing Order C4.

That the Executive Director, Adults and Health approves the award of the contract for the Mental Health Individual Placement and Support employment service to Hestia Housing and Support for a period of two years from 1st April 2025, for a maximum total sum of £2,007,581.28.

RESOLVED –

THAT the following be approved:-

(i)           Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – North

The variation of the contract with St Mungo’s in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £702,188  and a waiver, subject to agreement by the Executive Director Corporate Services and approval by the Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under Contract Standing Order (CSO) E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.4.

(ii)          Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – Adamson Road

The variation of the contract with St Mungo’s in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £525,244 and a waiver, subject to agreement by the Executive Director Corporate Services and approval by the Cabinet Member Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.4.

(iii)        Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – South

The variation of the contract with St Mungo’s in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 May 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £1,033,044 and a waiver, subject to agreement by the Executive Director Corporate Services and approval by the Cabinet Member Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.4.

(iv)        Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – Cliff Road

The variation of the contract with Riverside in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 June 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £275,277 and a waiver, subject to the approval of the Executive Director Corporate Services, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.3.

(v)          Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – Maygrove

The variation of the contract with Riverside in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £179,375 and a waiver, subject to the approval of the Executive Director Corporate Services, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.3.

(vi)        Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – Central

The variation of the contract with Riverside in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost £346,797 and a waiver, subject to the approval of Executive Director Corporate Services, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.3.

(vii)       Contract for the Mental Health Supported Living – Tile House (Intensive Support)

The variation of the contract with Riverside in order to extend the current arrangement from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 at a cost of £489,667 and a waiver, subject to the approval of the Executive Director Corporate Services, to implement the variation as it is not permissible under the terms of the contract as required under CSO E2.2 and in line with CSO F3.3.

Cabinet has created a Camden Community Wealth Fund (CWF) – a mission-driven, social investment fund that will provide investment for people, businesses and organisations in Camden that are delivering on our missions, to develop their ideas, grow their businesses, and maximise their impact.

The Fund will formally launch next year and will support people and organisations that are focused on tackling the We Make Camden Missions and in particular the Young People and the Diversity Missions. In its first phase, it will do this by providing repayable long-term loans to help people that want to make a positive impact on the Borough start or grow a business in Camden. It will also provide other support including wrap-around business support. Applications from businesses to source investment will go live in the spring of next year.

This report recommends the establishment of 2 CWF Pilot Schemes for the first phase of the Fund. The Pilot Schemes will test 2 distinct Participation Approaches designed to empower our residents to feed into Investment decisions in a meaningful way and create a sense of “Community Ownership” of the Fund.

THAT the Executive Director of Corporate Services

1.             approve the launch of the 2 CWF Pilot Schemes set out in section 2 of this report to test 2 participation approaches designed to empower our residents to feed into CWF investment decisions.

2.             allocate a budget of £5,000,000 (five million pounds) for the 2 CWF Pilot Schemes.

This report is to seek approval for an approach to procuring architectural and construction design management (CDM) services to complete the Kilburn Library redesign to completion of the project. The approach is to use the Bloom framework of which Camden are already a member to complete a direct award to the architect that completed Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)  Stage 3 designs to support the acquirement of external funding from the Arts Council.

The estimated contract value is £154,000 to complete the project up to RIBA Stage 7.

THAT the Director of Recreation of Supporting Communities approves use of the Bloom Framework to receive proposals and make a direct award to a selected sup-plier to provide architectural and construction design management services to com-plete the RIBA stage design up to Stage 7.

RESOLVED –

THAT the procurement strategy, which includes a price/quality split of 70/30 and a contract term of 6 months for an estimated value of £950,000, be appoved.

This report seeks approval to allocate local Community Infrastructure Levy (‘local CIL’) funds to community projects assessed from 9 December 2024 to 17 January 2025 - the projects are listed in the Recommendations section below. The projects have been assessed by officers to ensure they are in line with the CIL regulations and the Council’s assessment criteria for local CIL allocations, as set out in the case officer reports in Appendix 1.

THAT the Executive Director Supporting Communities agrees to allocate local Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) as follows:

i                   LCIL589 - Kentish Town North bike hangars - £40,000

ii                 LCIL592 - St Pancras Community Association wellbeing programme              2024/25 - £30,000

iii                LCIL595 - Frognal bike hangars - £10,000

iv                LCIL596 - Haverstock bike hangars - £60,000

v                 LCIL597 - Kilburn bike hangars - £25,000

vi                LCIL598 - King's Cross bike hangars - £30,000

vii              LCIL604 - Ingestre Woods restoration project - £1,500

viii             LCIL606 - Holly Lodge winter festive events - £300

ix                LCIL607 - RePresenting Bloomsbury Phase 2 - £50,000

x                 LCIL608 - St Mary’s Community Hall renovation tables and chairs - £6,836

xi                LCIL609 - South Hampstead bike hangars - £15,000

xii              LCIL610 - St Paul’s Primary School playground improvements - £20,000

This report sets out the procurement strategy for feasibility and detailed design for the Better, Safer Kilburn Scheme. Camden is co-leading this project in partnership with the London Borough of Brent and Westminster City Council.

Following a formal consultation in July and August 2024, a report on the Better Safer Kilburn scheme is currently in production, with an expected sign off by the Cabinet Member for planning and a sustainable Camden, in early February 2025. This strategy covers the procurement of the next stage of this scheme, progressing the consultation design into feasibility drawings and detailed design drawings.

The recommended procurement route is through a Request for Quotation (RfQ) pro-cess, obtaining a minimum of three quotes for this work, to secure best value and highest quality in service delivery. The estimated contract value will be capped at £150,000, for a contract duration of 1 year. Construction funding will come from a number of sources including central Council funds (£4 million secured), Transport for London (TfL) Borough Safer Streets Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding (£8 mil-lion bid), as well as other sources via Brent and Westminster Councils. The feasibility and detailed design contract would start in late March 2025 and continue for one year.

The following document has been used in the preparation of this report: Camden Transport Strategy Delivery Plan 2025-28.

THAT the Director of Environment and Sustainability approves the procurement strategy, which includes a price/quality split of 40/60 and contract term of 1 year for an estimated aggregate value of £150,000.

RESOLVED –

THAT, subject to compliance with relevant statutory requirements and detailed design, the installation of a dedicated disabled bay outside No.38 Canfield Gardens, NW6 be approved.

RESOLVED –

THAT, subject to compliance with relevant statutory requirements and detailed design, the conversion of 6.6m of resident permit holders only parking outside no.16 Gascony Avenue, NW6 into a dedicated disabled parking space, and the conversion of 1.6m of double yellow lines to resident permit holders only parking outside no.2 Gascony Avenue, NW6 be approved.

RESOLVED –

THAT, subject to compliance with relevant statutory requirements and detailed design, the installation of a dedicated disabled bay outside 31 Gascony Avenue NW6 be approved.

This report seeks agreement to extend the Camden & Islington’s HIV Support Service contract for the two one-year options permissible under the terms and conditions. The service is delivered under a network of providers in which Living Well Community Interest Company are the lead. The service operates under the ‘candiNetwork’.

Support available under the candiNetwork includes;

·       Living Well CIC; providing psychological, psychosocial and behavioural changes services

·       Positively UK; peer led support, outdoor activities, workshops and benefits support.

·       Bloomsbury Network; peer led wellbeing with a focus on reducing stigma and isolation.

·       YMCA; positive health programme to promote increase activity levels in HIV positive individuals.

·       Terrence Higgins Trust; work and skills training sessions and access to mentors.

·       Food Chain; deliver ‘Eating Positively’ a bespoke nutritional cooking course.

The service is designed to improve outcomes and remove inequalities through co-produced care planning tailored to individuals’ needs to better manage their health and wellbeing.

The London Borough of Islington led the original tender for these services under one contract which started in April 2022 for an initial term of three years. The annual contract value for this service is £164,990 of which Camden contributes 50% (£82,495).

This report is being presented to the Director of Health and Wellbeing in accordance with Contract Standing Order E1.

THAT the Director of Health and Wellbeing:

1.     Notes the performance of the contract.

2.     Approves the extension of the contract for a period of 2 years for the sum of £82,495 per annum (£164,990 in total)