Decision details

Children’s Services procures Personal Support services, also known as Domiciliary Care, from a number of local care agencies on a spot-purchase basis.

The Cabinet will be asked to approve the tendering of services in the form of a Framework Agreement, in an East London Solutions exercise to be led by the London Borough of Redbridge, in order to secure more competitively priced services as well as significantly better quality assurance through improved monitoring

Received a report from the Cabinet Member for Children and Education on proposals to procure a Framework Agreement for the provision of Personal Support Services principally for children with a disability.

The Cabinet Member advised that the Framework Agreement would be procured via an East London Solutions exercise, led by the London Borough of Redbridge and also including Havering and Waltham Forest Councils, with a view to securing more competitively priced services as well as significantly better quality assurance through the improved monitoring of providers.

Agreed, in order to support the Community Priority “Inspired and Successful Young People”, to:-

(i)  The procurement, via East London Solutions, of a Children’s Personal Support Framework Agreement on the terms detailed in the report; and

(ii)  Authorise the Corporate Director of Children’s Services to enter into the contract on behalf of the Council.