Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 53 (13 November 2018), the Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration reported on new proposals relating to the procurement of a two-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.

The Cabinet Member advised that the new Target Operating Model within Children’s Care and Support, as referred to in the previous agenda item, had seen the introduction of a new Specialist Intervention Service (SIS) and the cessation of the Access to Resource Team (ART) service.  The new Family Support team under the SIS would have a similar remit to provide bespoke intervention services and, therefore, the tender specification had been reviewed to align the work of that team with the new SIS.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the updated arrangements for the procurement of a two-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 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.