Children's Residential Services - Short term emergency regulated mainstream provision for children under 18 - Essex County Council

A Pre-Procurement Notice
by ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

Source
Contracts Finder
Type
Future Contract ()
Duration
17 day
Value
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Sector
HEALTH
Published
24 Jun 2022
Delivery
24 Jun 2022 to 11 Jul 2022
Deadline
11 Jul 2022 23:59

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

1 buyer

Description

Essex County Council (ECC) are seeking expressions of interest from providers in the Children's Residential Home space in Essex, this will be for short term emergency regulated mainstream provision for high level needs children under the age of 18 with Children and Families Support Services. The purpose of such provision would be to provide a crisis response/short term residential placement where a child or young person can receive high quality care until a longer term registered care setting can be found for the child. This would be specifically for a block contract with an arrangement for ECC to block beds within a Solo Provision. Such provisions will be available immediately, or within the next three months. This requirement is for a 24 month period with 6 month break clauses throughout. This requirement is in conjunction with the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") and accompanying guidance. The Provider must adhere to the quality standards as set out within the Regulations when delivering children's residential placements under this provision. These requirements includes but are not limited to the provision of appropriately trained staff.

CPV Codes

  • 85300000 - Social work and related services

Other Information

Where you think your organisation could meet the challenges of delivering the above requirement, please send your expression of interest to the below by 5pm Monday 11th July 2022. Anne-Lise Nicol: Annelise.Nicol@essex.gov.uk

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