Freedom of information response

We kindly request information on the contracts your council currently commissions for the following services:

Dementia Support – Grant to the Alzheimer’s Society not a contract

Hospital Discharge – BTUH – 31st March 2024 also our Domiciliary Care Providers Guardian Home care and John Stanley both contracts end 31st march 2025

Social Prescribing - Not Council commissioned

Information and Advice Services -  Thurrock and Brentwood Mind Unpaid Carers Information, Support and Advice  - 31st March 2025

Advocacy - Voiceability  -  31st December 2026 with facility for a 1 + 1 year extension

Carers Support -  Noted above

End of Life Care – Not Council Commissioned

Community Champions / Wellbeing Coordinators – Local Area Co-ordinators service internal to the Council

Elderly Day Centre – internal to the Council

Befriending – Not commissioned by the Council

Footcare/toenail cutting – not Council commissioned

Non-Emergency Patient Transport – add hoc basis as required no contract

Bereavement Support – Not Council commissioned

Digital Inclusion  - Not council commissioned

 For each service, please provide the following information:

a. Name of the service provider

b. The estimated expiry date/ month for the current contract

You are free to use any information supplied to you for your own use, including non-commercial research purposes. However, any other type of re-use, for example, by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public will require the permission of the copyright owner.

Where the copyright is owned by Thurrock Council, you must apply to the Council to re-use the information. Please email information.matters@thurrock.gov.uk if you wish to re-use the information you have been supplied. For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation, you must apply to the copyright owner to obtain their permission.

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which the council have managed your FOI request you can pursue an Internal Review by contacting us using the above email address. An internal review must be submitted within 40 working days of your original reply. Your request will be considered by a senior member of the Information Management Team who will update you with the outcome of the review.

If you remain unhappy following the outcome of your Internal Review you may wish to refer your case to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and details of this organisation can be found at www.ico.org.uk . Please be advised that the ICO will not consider your case until they have confirmation that you have already been through the Internal Review stage with the council.