Provision of Home Care Support 2027

East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be holding a Market Engagement event to commission home care, reablement, and associated services from April 2027. This will replace and redesign existing arrangements to ensure a sustainable, high-quality and outcome-focused system of care. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has a statutory duty, under the Care Act 2014, to provide home care services for residents with assessed eligible needs, in order to enable them to remain safe and independent in their own homes for longer, reducing or delaying the need for more formal health and social care services. This procurement is required to ensure the Council can continue to meet these statutory responsibilities while addressing increasing demand, market pressures and system inefficiencies. The procurement will establish a contract for the delivery of home care services, reablement, recovery-focused support, hospital discharge, crisis response services, and care delivery within extra care housing schemes. The aim is to deliver a sustainable and high-performing local home care market while improving the timeliness of access to care, including support for hospital discharge. A key objective is to move away from traditional time-and-task care models towards a more outcomes-based approach. The Council also intends to strengthen integration between health, social care, and community services, and to reduce reliance on long-term care through more effective use of reablement. In addition, the procurement will enhance provider accountability, quality, and performance management, while ensuring value for money and overall financial sustainability. The Council intends to introduce a neighbourhood-based service model. This will consist of a Lead Provider in each locality, responsible for delivering a significant proportion of care, supported by a small number of additional locality providers to maintain capacity and diversity within the market. This market engagement will cover this supplementa