Transcript John Littlemore Head of Housing Maidstone Borough Council

Better Homes Active Lives
Kent’s PFI - Experience of
Partnership
Christy Holden
Project Manager & PFI Contract Manager
Kent Adult Social Services
Better Homes
Active Lives
Partnership
Aim of the Project
• Enable vulnerable people to live
independently with appropriate facilities
• Extra Care Sheltered Housing
• Self contained flats
Project Scope
• 275 Apartments of extra care housing for
older people (7 schemes)
• 58 Apartments for people with learning
disabilities (9 clusters of apartments)
• 7 Apartments for people with mental health
problems
• Spread across 10 Districts and 12 sites
• £72 million funding - PFI Credits
Definition
• Extra Care Sheltered Housing:
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24 hour on site care team
many 2-bed apartments
a restaurant
communal lounges
gym facilities
treatment rooms
Standards
• Equipped for Assistive Technology
• DDA Compliant and meet HC’s frail elderly
standards
• Easily adaptable apartments
For LD & MH
• Clusters of flats for 7 people
• 8th flat for staff/communal use
• In some cases on the same site as ECSH
Private Finance Initiative
• Long term risk sharing relationship
between public and private sectors
• Typically 30 year contracts - costed on
‘whole life’ basis
• Public sector specifies outputs
• Private sector designs, builds, finances
and operates asset
Kent PFI Housing: Key Stakeholder Group
Heads of Housing
Kent Adult Social Services Area Directors
PCT reps
Main Project Board
6 x District Council Heads of Housing
2 x Kent Adult Social Services Senior Officers
Project Director (PT)
Kent County Council
Project Manager (FT)
Project Accountant (FT)
Contract Manager (PT)
Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Project Team
Project Support
Assistant (FT)
External Financial Legal
&Technical Advisors
Internal Finance, Legal, Property,
Housing, Care
Procurement in Partnership Successes
• Strong leadership and support
• Established structures for sharing risks
and responsibilities
• Planned stakeholder communication /
participation
• Bidder engagement & competition
Challenges
• Site identification, investigation &
treatment in contract
• Distribution of risk & benefit in back to
back
• Final stages - 30 lawyers representing
all parties
• General challenges
The future
• Additional layer of partnership - our
RSL partner!
• Excellent relationships to date
• Contractual - with penalties
• Head of Kent PFI & PFI Contract
Manager to continue and develop the
good relationships already established
Support
• CLG - advice on bidding process and queries
from the Treasury
• 4p’s - Local Government Project Delivery
Specialists - advice, good training and helpful
networks for LA’s with Housing Projects
– Social Care Procurement Pack - on line
4ps
• LIFT - re-launch in October 2007 - DH
announcing bidding round soon
• DH Extra Care Fund - details from DH
4ps are keen to work with DH to support
authorities in developing well thought out bids
Contact Brian Johnston, Senior Executive - Project Support
(Housing/Social Care Services), 4ps
Tel: 020 7296 6714 Email: [email protected]
www.4ps.gov.uk
Further Information
Christy Holden - PFI Contract Manager
[email protected]