Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration presented a report on proposals to procure a four-year Framework Agreement for the provision of Bespoke Packages of Care Service for Children in Need, Children in Care and Children subject to a Child Protection Plan.

The Cabinet Member advised that it had been agreed between Operational and Commissioning colleagues that the Bespoke Family Intervention Service should also reflect services for children with disabilities.  The packages would include:

·  Edge of care intervention;

·  Rehabilitation; and

·  Specialist interventions for fragile placements.

The Cabinet noted the importance of the packages around the need for intervention; however, the Cabinet also noted that the packages were there to help young people move out of the Council’s care system.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the procurement of a four-year framework contract for the provision of a Bespoke Packages of Care Service 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 Strategic Director, Children and Adults, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration, the Managing Director and the Strategic Director, Law and Governance, to award and enter into the framework agreements and all other necessary or ancillary agreements with the successful bidders.