Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration introduced a report on proposals to procure qualified, experienced private and voluntary providers to work with the Council’s Access to Resource Team to deliver bespoke early intervention support in relation to children’s care services.

The Cabinet Member referred to the success of the Access to Resource Team and the significant financial benefits stemming from the intervention work that they are associated with, which was estimated at over £2m in 2016/17.  With regard to the new framework arrangements, the Cabinet Member advised that the contract would be for a four-year term commencing 1 April 2019 and, in the meantime, interim contractual arrangements with two providers had been put in place.

The Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the procurement of a four-year framework contract for the provision of Bespoke Packages of Care Services for Children in Need, Children in Care and Children subject to a Child Protection Plan, in accordance with the Council’s Contract Rules and the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Director of People and Resilience, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration, the Chief Operating Officer and the Director of Law and Governance, to award and enter into the framework agreements and all other necessary or ancillary agreements with the successful bidders.