WP3714 - Advocacy Services - Independent Care Act Advocacy, IMHA, ICAS and IMCA - AWARD

The Council wishes to procure a provider to deliver Advocacy Services: Independent Care Act Advocacy, IMHA, ICAS and IMCA to support the Council to fulfil its duty with regard to the provision of Independent Statutory Advocacy. The service is for eligible people who have been judged to have substantial difficulty or lack the capacity to engage with processes relating to their care, health and support services, or in deprivation of liberty situations, and do not have an appropriate individual (i.e. family member) to represent them.

The tender consolidates several Independent Advocacy Service requirements into two Specifications to cover the following:

Specification 1

Service 1 - Independent Care Act Advocacy to comply with the Care Act 2014

Service 2 - Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) to comply with the Mental Health Act 1983(as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007)

Service 3 - Independent Complaints Advocacy (ICAS) to comply with the NHS and Social Care Act 2012

Specification 2

Service 4 - Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Advocacy (IMCA DoLS), and Relevant Paid Persons Representative Service to comply with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Capacity Amendment Act 2019