Kathy Bee

Associate

Kathy has extensive experience in Supporting People and housing issues having worked in the Housing Corporation’s Supported Housing Team as well as for various local authorities. Kathy spent 3 years on the ODPM team implementing SP. Since then she has worked on a range of projects include strategic reviews of services for people with mental health problems and older people, housing needs studies of older people, SP strategy refreshes and value for money reviews.

Kathy has particular expertise in needs assessments and strategic reviews.

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About Frank Curran

Frank established the company in 2002. He has worked in the social care sector for more than twenty years. He has considerable operational experience but has also worked extensively with Local Authorities in the commissioning and procurement of social care and housing related support services.

Frank has acted as Lead Officer for four SP programmes and has led strategic reviews for SP programmes, substance misuse and learning disability services. He is currently undertaking a strategic review of commissioning arrangements for substance misuse services as well as managing an Individual Budgets pilot.

He has particular expertise in helping both local authorities and providers prepare for the personalisation agenda. He is been actively engaged with commissioning and strategic planning.
Project News: July 2010 - Completed a major piece of work in relation to care quality standards across 12 local authorities in the North East region. As part of this project we have had considerable contact with local authority commissioners, performance and quality assurance officers as well as nearly 1000 providers of care services in the north east. We effectively used a web based approach to support communications/stakeholder engagement activity for this project. The website can be accessed at this link:
NE Regional Quality Standards Project

Kathy Bee

About Frank Curran