SOL - Flexible Contracting Arrangement (FCA) for Social Care and Support Services for Children with Disabilities

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Value

£2,205,000

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  • Health and social work services

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  • tender

Submission Deadline

3 years ago

Published

3 years ago

Description

SMBC have social care duties for children and young people with disabilities under a number of pieces of legislation and policies. These include the Children Act 1989, The Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children Regulations 2011, Children and Families Act 2014 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice (0 to 25) (DfE/DH, 2015) and Children’s Social Care Reform – a vision for change (DfE, 2016).SMBC is looking to create a Flexible Contracting Arrangement (FCA) Agreement with a number of providers of Social Care and Support Services for Children and Young People with Disabilities.The tender will be let under "Light Touch" arrangements under the relevant government procurement directives and implemented in English Law in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015).The FCA will be used by the Council’s brokerage team to make purchases of care and support services for our children and young people with disabilities.

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Open Framework for Alternative Provision

1. The key Service Aim is to support the Council’s priorities identified in the Council plan | Westmorland and Furness Council). Service Vision 2. The vision for the service is to ensure that all children, regardless of circumstance or setting, receive a good education. The service therefore is committed to ensuring all alternative provision commissioned for a child or young person in Westmorland and Furness is of good quality, registered where appropriate, and delivered by high quality staff with suitable training, experience and safeguarding checks. 3. All alternative provision that is commissioned must be suitable to a child or young person’s age, ability and aptitude and any special educational needs (SEN) they may have. 4. All children and young people will make good progress against outcomes, identified prior to the start of a placement with a Provider and will have access to meaningful qualifications. This will mean they are equipped to progress onto the next stage in their educational career and are enabled to participate and contribute positively to society in the future. 5. Placements into alternative provision will always be made with the child or young person’s reintegration back into mainstream education or move onto a sustained post-16 destination in mind. 6. The placement of a child or young person with a Provider is consistent with the efficient use of resources. Service Description 7. The following Services are in scope of this specification: Lot 1: Alternative Provision where the provider is registered with Ofsted (or an equivalent body). This may include providers who are registered with Ofsted, but the category of their registration does not include learners to whom they are offering alternative provision. Lot 2: Alternative Provision where the provider is not registered with Ofsted (or an equivalent body) Lot 3: Alternative Provision for pupils with medical conditions that prevent their attendance at school. The Framework will be managed with providers being placed on either Provider List A or B. The criteria for being on each list is as follows: • List A is for Registered Providers and therefore those applying to Lot 1 would be placed on this list. It is also possible those applying for Lot 3 could also be a registered provider and be placed on List A. List B is for Providers who are unregistered whether applying for Lot 2 and or Lot 3.

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Corporate Procurement Service

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