Delivery Partner for the Regional Care Co-operatives Pathfinders and Commissioning, Forecasting and Market Shaping National Support

CPV: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Health and social work services

Procedure method

Restricted procedure

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Competitive procedure

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

6 Sept 2023, 09:55 BST

Last source update

17 May 2024, 12:19 BST

FTS notice number

2024/S 000-015697

Classification (CPV)

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityHealth and social work services

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Publisher note: Policy Background In February 2023, the Department for Education published a vision to transform children’s social care: Stable Homes, Built on Love: Implementation Strategy and Consultation. This strategy set out proposals for reform in response to recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care (2022), the Child Safeguarding Practice Panel review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson (2022) and the Competition and Markets Authority’s market study into children’s social care provision (2022). The strategy set out 6 pillars of reform, backed by £200 million of additional investment. The pillars of reform are: 1. Family Help provides the right support at the right time so that children can thrive with their families. 2. A decisive multi-agency child protection system. 3. Unlocking the potential of family networks. 4. Putting love, relationships and a stable home at the heart of being a child in care. 5. A valued, supported and highly skilled social worker for every child who needs one. 6. A system that continuously learns and improves and makes better use of evidence and data. As part of pillar 4, the strategy committed to testing a regional model for planning, commissioning and delivering children’s social care placements, called Regional Care Co-operatives (RCCs). The government’s long-term vision for RCCs is that they will: • Plan, commission and deliver all children’s care placements, across fostering, children’s homes and secure homes. • Improve forecasting of demand leading to better informed plans; enabling areas to ensure there are sufficient placements and support available to meet the needs of children who are in care. • Gain economies of scale, in particular around placements for children and young people with multiple complex needs and in negotiations with providers, to ensure that every pound spent makes the biggest impact possible for children. • Have greater collaboration with health and justice commissioners to improve services for children in care. • Reform foster parent recruitment and retention and, where necessary, create new forms of care to meet local need so that more children in care can stay in family environments and closer to home. RCCs are part of a broader package of measures to transform the care placement market, including: • Investing £259 million to support areas to maintain capacity and expand provision in both secure and open children’s homes. • Investing £27m to recruit and retain more foster carers. • Implementing the CMA recommendations on: o providing national forecasting, procurement, and market shaping support; o introducing a financial oversight regime; and o reforming standards of care. • Considering changes to ensure that planning requirements, or local interpretation of them, are not a barrier to the creation of more homes for children. Stable Homes, Built on Love set out that the Department would set up two RCC pathfinders over this Spending Review period to test a new regional approach to providing homes for looked after children, within the current legal framework, ahead of bringing forward legislation when parliamentary time allows. The Department will work with local authorities and other key stakeholders to co-design the pathfinders, with a view to rolling out after evaluating the best approach in conjunction with the sector. Both a delivery partner and evaluation partner will be procured to support this work.

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