Issue details

Brief Description

The Live Well Leeds community based mental health contract is due to expire on 31/3/25 following a 5 year contract and an additional 1 year contract variation. The service has an annual value in 2024/25 of £1,026,000.

Use of the Provider Selection Regime is being requested to make a direct award to Touchstone to deliver Live Well Leeds, a community based mental health service for a 5 year contract with the option to extend for up to a further 3 years.

The budget for 2025/26 will incorporate a further 5% reduction in line with savings being sought by the Authority making the annual contract value £974,700.

Impact On Wards

The service will continue to be delivered across the whole of the City.

Financial and procurement implications

In line with the wider financial savings being sought by the Authority there will be a reduction in contract value of 5% for the recommissioning of this service making the annual value £974,700. The maximum cost for the 5 year contract period 1^st April 2025 – 31^st March 2030 is £4,873,500.

Partnership working

From year 1 of the contract there has been annual funding injections from Children’s Services for Live Well Leeds to deliver mental health support in the 3 Early Help Hubs. For 2024/25 this is a total of £138,896. It is envisaged that this funding will continue but it is not yet known at what level as it is funded from central government grants.

For the first 5 years of the contract (2019 – 2024) the ICB contributed an annual amount of £109,645 to deliver a befriending service. This funding ceased in March 2024 as part of wider ICB financial savings. The service adjusted their service offer for 2024/25 to take account of this.