Care in Your Home Partnership – Meet the Buyer / Market Engagement Event

Herefordshire Council will be running a Market Engagement event for all businesses interested in delivering home care under a new framework, called Care In Your Home (CIYH) Partnership.

Herefordshire Council has a statutory duty, under the Care Act 2014, to provide home care services for residents with assessed eligible needs, in order to enable them to remain safe and independent in their own homes for longer, reducing or delaying the need for more formal health and social care services.

This engagement follows on from our provider sessions in June and July, as we continue to develop the CIYH model, before decisions are finalised and is an opportunity to:
• Share open feedback on what currently works and what doesn’t
• Raise concerns early, while the model is still being shaped
• Influence how the future approach supports providers and the workforce

These engagement sessions will focus on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) element of the new CIYH Partnership, which will involve delivering reablement and enablement to residents after they have left hospital. Reablement / enablement is different to traditional home care, as it is a time limited intervention only (potentially for up to five weeks) with an emphasis on ‘doing with, not doing for’.

Dates of the engagement:

In person

Venue: HARC (Herefordshire Archive and Record Centre), Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas Industrial Estate,
Hereford, Herefordshire, HR2 6LA.

Date & Time:
1) Tue 18 August 2026 at 9:30 – 11:00
2) Tue 18 August 2026 at 12:00 – 13:30


Online Sessions (via Microsoft teams)

Date & Time:
1) Thu 20 August 2026 at 13:30 – 15:00
2) Fri 21 August 2026 at 9:30 – 11:00


Please note, all sessions will be limited to 2 attendees per provider, to facilitate wider discussion and engagement for all participants.

ALL SUPPLIERS WHO WISH TO ATTEND should e-mail Chloe and Jess at ciyh@herefordshire.gov.uk by 10am on Monday 17 August 2026.
Please use subject heading in email “CIYH Engagement Events” and confirm:

• Your organisation name
• Name, position and e-mail address of your attendee(s)
• The session you wish to attend – please confirm date and time

Please note: We will send the MS Teams invitations to registered attendees by Wednesday 19 August and we will be unable to admit any attendees who have not booked in advance of the sessions.