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Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination – Contract Variation
Meeting: 11/09/2017 - Cabinet (Item 9)
9 Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination: Contract Variation 
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This report requests that Cabinet agree to vary the Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination Contract to include the delivery of the Home Office Transformation Fund services detailed in paragraph 3.2 to the value of an additional £100,000 per annum for three years.
Decision:
RESOLVED that:
9.1 The variation of the Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination Contract, to include the delivery of the Home Office Transformation Fund services detailed in paragraph 3.2 of the report to the value of an additional £100,000 per annum for three years, be agreed.
Minutes:
Councillor Tom Miller, Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities, reminded Cabinet that, in June 2017, Cabinet agreed the proposed option to commission Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy (IDVA), Family Support and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) coordination services, allocating a council budget of £270,226 per year for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend by a further 2 years. The contract was subsequently re-tendered in July 2017 and awarded using delegated powers in September 2017.
Councillor Miller informed Cabinet that, in February 2017, the council’s Community Protection Service submitted a funding application to the Home Office Transformation Fund for additional specialist domestic abuse IDVA intervention.
Councillor Miller stated that the council was notified its application had been successful in July 2017, however contract validation regarding provider requirements was not confirmed by the Home Office until August 2017, after the IDVA, Family Support and MARAC coordinator services tender had closed. Given the additional funding awarded to the council is for very similar services to those it has very recently procured, it is considered that rather than procuring a further contract, the recently let Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination Contract should be varied to include the additional provision covered by the grant funding.
RESOLVED that:
9.1 The variation of the Brent Domestic Abuse Advocacy and MARAC Coordination Contract, to include the delivery of the Home Office Transformation Fund services detailed in paragraph 3.2 of the report to the value of an additional £100,000 per annum for three years, be agreed.