Bath & North East Somerset's Social & Housing Services, as well as being a direct provider of care, purchases care from over 200 hundred care homes (locally and nationally), from approximately 20 domiciliary care providers and providers of day care.

In order to promote partnership working, the Local Authority  facilitates a Local Provider's Forum to represent providers through informed discussion and information sharing.

When 'vacancies' occur, then new Provider representatives are nominated and elected by local Providers.

This Forum, which meets every two months, enables the Local Authority and our statutory partners, the B&NES Primary Care Trust (PCT) and the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), to engage with local Providers of care. 

The links on the right of this page lead to information on  the Terms of Reference for the Forum, and a full list of members of the Forum and their contact details.

 Meeting minutes

• May 2008
• Sept 2008

Care Directory 2008 

The Care Directory for 2008 has now been published. If you need to make any amendments to the information given about your Care Home,  please complete the attached amendment sheet (see 'Related documents' on the right of this web page) and return it to ellie_weyman@bathnes.gov.uk . We will be unable to make amendments to the actual directory at this stage, but we can ensure that the information given on our website is correct, and we can add your details to a correction sheet which can be distributed with the Care Directory.