VCSE Support & Improvement Programme - NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership)

Concepts

• wakefield
• care partnership
• integrated care board
• vcse organisations
• craven health
• bradford district
• craven health and care partnership
• the health and care partnership vision
• vcse support & improvement programme - nhs west yorkshire integrated care board
• the health and care partnership

Location

Description

To support citizens and VCSE organisations to deliver the Health and Care Partnership vision to keep people 'happy, healthy and at home'. To do this through taking a data-driven, continuous-learning and asset-based approach to support VCSE organisations who have an active interest, ability, and capability to deliver against our shared ambitions. This should look to provide stability where possible, to promote growth of organisations that deliver opportunities for people to take control of their own health and wellbeing, and to contribute to our partnership's insight and intelligence about the communities we serve.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• None found

Legal Justification

The current provider, the Bradford VCS Alliance (VCSA) was established by the local VCSE sector with the explicit purpose of acting as the infrastructure body and strategic partner for health and care in Bradford District and Craven. It plays a unique system role in coordinating VCSE engagement, managing representation across partnership groups, and overseeing delivery of health and care projects by a wider network of local VCSE organisations. There is no viable alternative organisation able to deliver this function in a way that preserves existing alignment, infrastructure, and system trust. Changing provider at this stage would risk destabilising delivery, duplicating effort, and undermining the progress made in embedding the VCSE as a core system partner. The VCSA's model of delivery, coordination, and insight reporting is embedded across our place-based structures. This extension supports: • The development of the VCSE's role in Integrated Neighbourhood Working, aligned to local and national strategic priorities • Ongoing review and transition of Community Partnership structures, forming a core part of current organisational change • Joint planning with local authority commissioners to determine the most appropriate long-term commissioning route • Exploration of potential investment from other system partners, including emerging provider collaboratives • Continued delivery of statutory duties relating to involvement, engagement, and system partnership This waiver represents a time-limited, proportionate and compliant arrangement to maintain stability, enable joint strategic planning, and support system transition. Future commissioning arrangements will be informed by this planning work and will follow the appropriate governance and legal routes, taking account of direct award criteria where applicable. This has been considered and supported by the ICB Extended Leadership Team at Bradford District and Craven place.

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