Social work and related services

Description

To provide a Housing Support Service to people experiencing mental illness, who meet the social work eligibility criteria, through assisting them to manage and maintain community living independently. The Service is to be accessible across the Scottish Borders area and delivered in line with the National Care Standards prescribed Housing Support tasks — more detail can be found within the specification on specific tasks that will be required. The Service will work in partnership with other services and professionals. It is considered the provision Community Based Housing Support — Mental Health falls within the ‘light-touch’ regime as described in regulations 74-76 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Neither the inclusion of this stage or any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Council intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the ‘light-touch’ regime. The Contract will not be divided into lots as this would make the execution of the contract excessively difficult.