Regional Care Cooperative - Supported Accommodation

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    "description": "1.0 Background\nThe Greater Manchester Combined Authority Regional Care Cooperative (RCC) is developing a new, region wide approach to supported accommodation for children transitioning out of care aged 16 - 17 and care experienced young people. The RCC has been established to strengthen sufficiency, improve outcomes and develop a more ethical and purpose driven care market across the region. Ensuring young people leaving care have safe and supported environments as they prepare for adulthood.\nThe supported accommodation market is comprised of a range of providers and commissioning arrangements, and service delivery approaches vary across localities. Engagement with young people and sector stakeholders, alongside data analysis and market insight, indicates that experiences of support and placement stability can be inconsistent and that young people often face challenges when moving into adulthood. The RCC has identified a benefit in a regionally coordinated approach that enables innovation in the sector to design a new supported accommodation and settling in model.\nThis procurement forms part of the RCC's wider programme of work to support market sustainability and capacity, strengthen regional planning, and increase the availability of provision that meets current needs and outcomes for young people. \nThe RCC intends to establish a multi provider open framework through a Competitive Flexible Procedure. The approach to commissioning and procurement designed thus far aims to ensure accessibility for all eligible providers.\nFurther information and guidance regarding this pre procurement period is available through the Participation Pack also available through The Chest.\n2.0 Summary of Requirements\nSuccessful framework providers commit to, and will be able to demonstrate, collaborative working principles throughout the procurement and delivery of the contract. This will include participation in the development of a codesigned collaboration agreement during the codesign phase, establishing early the shared expectations for joint working that will determine how the framework is delivered once in place.\n3.0 Objectives and Outcomes\nThe core offer and outcomes the framework will be in place to provide are to be defined through the codesign period as part of the PME. There has been a deliberate decision not to prescribe a specification at this stage. Instead, a service design and its objectives will emerge through meaningful coproduction with sector stakeholders.\nSome general principles include developing a supported accommodation and wider community base support function that: \n\tWill meet demand and need in GM ensuring it aligns with sufficiency data and intelligence.\n\tIs of a high quality, trauma responsive, relational, community rooted, and centred around young people's needs and aspirations. \n\tImproves placement stability and avoids unplanned moves. \n\tSupports preparation for adulthood, including life skills, tenancy readiness, EET engagement, financial capability and emotional wellbeing. \n\tDevelops new and improves existing alignment across partnerships and pathways. \n\tDesigns out the \"cliff edge\" of support at 18 and promotes long term interdependence.\n\tSupports a diverse provider pool each contributing key elements of the service and gives flexibility to local authorities to call off provision that meets individual needs, local demand, and the evolving regulatory landscape.\nRegistration to these events must be via the Chest Procurement platform https://www.the-chest.org.uk/  \nReference DN812920",
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        "description": "Intensive engagement and codesign with the market and its stakeholders will begin at the end of April and take place over 4 weeks.\na.\tOn the 30th April at 11:00 the RCC will host a pre-engagement webinar for interested providers and stakeholders to attend and hear more about the approach. This will assist in determining whether parties would like to be involved in the codesign sessions.  \nFollowing this there will be 2 in person codesign sessions per week focusing on a key area the RCC is looking to coproduce. Key areas and prospective dates are outlined below. Further information confirming locations and timings will be shared via The Chest.\nb.\tProcurement Process - Engagement events 5th May and 7th May \nc.\tService Design and Property - Engagement events 12th May and 14th May \nd.\tService Design and Property - Engagement events 19th May and 21st May \nIf further in person or on online events are needed during the PME period, a notification will be shared through the Chest. \nAttendance of the codesign sessions outlined is strongly recommended, however, if representatives cannot attend for whatever reason, further information will be shared through the Chest with regards to a survey or template to return. \nTo register for the PME webinar and codesign sessions please follow the link below to the Chest. Registration must be via the messaging section on the Chest listing your name, job title, organisation, e-mail address and which session would you like to attend.\nhttps://www.the-chest.org.uk/\nProject reference - DN812920\nThe RCC will run a Competitive Flexible Procedure with an intensive pre-procurement preliminary market engagement period. Flowing from this will be the procurement window.\nDuring the pre-procurement Preliminary Market Engagement period intensive codesign events will take place focusing on three key areas.\no\tStructured codesign events shaping the procurement - service design, social value approach, framework collaboration agreement, evaluation criteria, qualities we must see, and quality assurance expectations.\no\tStructured codesign events shaping the service design and shaping property acquisition - using a service concept as a foundation to explore what an innovative and outcome led model needs to do. Then ensuring that our property search meets the requirements of the service design.\n•\tA Participation Pack will be shared ahead of the sessions outlining the codesign process and what participants need to be prepared to bring.\nDuring the procurement process\nElements of the procurement process are to be defined during the codesign window but are likely to include multiple dialogue, clarification and evaluation stages, focusing on quality, purpose, values, relational practice, community embeddedness and financial sustainability."
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