The Assistant Director for Care and Health, and Commissioning for People introduced the report of the Director for Care and Health which sought the Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee’s approval for the extension of the existing contracts for AccessAble and Payroll and Managed Accounts Service.

It was reported that the Accessable contract included the promotion of accessibility of places that enhance health and wellbeing so disabled people and carers were confident they could visit and Committee approval was sought to extend the current arrangements for a further 3 year-period to October 2024. Furthermore, the Payroll and Managed Accounts contract with Wired was to support people receiving a Direct Payment as an alternative to directly commissioning services, and approval was sought to extent this contract until 30 November 2022.

Members discussed the work of AccessAble and considered ways in which Wirral could become more accessible as well as the work the organisation was doing with local businesses to gain more data to support their work. As part of the discussion it was proposed that members would benefit from dementia training.

Resolved – That

(1)  The Director of Care and Health be authorised to proceed with the renewal of contracts for AccessAble and Payroll and Managed Accounts Service.

(2)  A further report be received following the completion of the Direct Payments review in March 2022.