Developing Personalised Markets In the Bi-Borough

The Bi-Borough (Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea) is undertaking work to understand local care and support markets. This includes existing and potential social care providers. Our aim is to stimulate a diverse range of services, to ensure that residents (including current service users and their carers) have choice and control over how their needs are met. The Bi-Borough is also investing into digital developments, including an e-marketplace and self-service tools to transform and modernise the way that social care works with our residents and providers. It is the councils' ambition to have a range of services funded in different ways. This includes contracted services, self-funded arrangements and services funded via direct payments, whereby service users can buy what they really need with their own care budget, rather than have it purchased for them. With this shift, we want to host a series of workshops with existing and potential providers to understand: - What is out there - What the risks are - How the Bi-Borough can help mitigate these risks and provide support to providers to avoid unintended consequences - What the barriers are to entering the market

Providers please note: - The workshops are part of preliminary consultation to promote choice and control for residents. - This notice is not a call for competition. For avoidance of doubt, this does not formally signify the beginning of a procurement exercise and does not constitute any commitment by the councils to undertake any procurement exercise. - Participation in these workshops will not include or preclude any organisation from participating in any future formal procurement exercise. - Participation in these workshops by providers should not give rise to expectation that their organisation will have an agreement to make service offers to residents. - The councils will not reimburse providers for any expenses incurred for participating in these workshops.

The aim of these workshops will be to build a plan together that ensures the market is built-up and supported. Spaces are limited to two per organisation. Please sign up for this event through the Eventbrite links below.The password to access the page is password123 Friday 15th February 2019, 9:00-13:00 -https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing-personalised-markets-in-the-bi-borough-of-westminster-and-kensington-and-chelsea-tickets-53956325823 Friday 22nd February 2019, 09:00-13:00 -https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing-personalised-markets-in-the-bi-borough-of-westminster-and-kensington-and-chelsea-tickets-53956489312 If you require more information ahead of booking, please contactebecket@[email protected]