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Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

1. Can you please explain your commissioning processes for providers of accommodation and/or support in respect to looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc. Do you spot purchase, have framework agreements or have block contracts in each of these categories?

2. If you have framework agreements and/or block contracts for accommodation and/or support in respect tolooked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc, please specify when each of these are due to be re-tendered.

3. Do organisations need to go through a pre-registration process to accommodate looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc on a spot purchase basis?

4. Do you have local authority run provisions for looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc? If so, how many of each category are currently accommodated in these facilities?

5. Please specify the number of looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc accommodated currently via:

a. spot purchase

b. framework agreements

c. block contracts

6. How many care leavers/uasc aged 16-17 years old and specified in the answer to question 4 are are accommodated in residential children's homes?

7. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a looked after child aged under 16 year in a private residential children's home?

8. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc child aged 16-17 in a private residential children's home?

9. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc child aged 16-17 in a 24/7 supervised semi-independent provision?

10. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc child aged 16-17 in an unsupervised semi-independent provision? Please include the cost of floating support. Please advise if you do not place 16-17 year olds in an unsupervised semi-independent provision.

11. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc aged 18-24 in a 24/7 supervised semi-independent provision? Please advise if you do not place 18-24 year olds in a supervised semi-independent provision.

12. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing care leavers/uasc 18-24 year olds in an unsupervised semi-independent provision? Please include the cost of floating support.

13. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase commissioning, service provision, rates and referrals for accommodating looked after children in residential children's homes? Who is the specific named point of contact?

14. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase commissioning, service provision, rates and referrals for accommodating and/or supporting care leavers/uasc aged 16-17 years old? Who is the specific named point of contact?

15. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase commissioning, service provision, rates and referrals for accommodating and/or supporting care leavers/uasc aged 18-24 years old? Who is the specific named point of contact?

16. Who should be approached within the council to discuss framework agreement/block purchase commissioning for accommodating looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc? Who is the specific named point of contact?

17. Please can you provide me with a list of all of your current suppliers signed up to framework agreements/block purchase contracts for accommodating looked after children in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc?

Yours faithfully,

niilesh bhalanee

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From:    niilesh bhalanee <[FOI #472896 email]>

Sent:     22 March 2018 14:27

To:          Information Governance

Subject:               Freedom of Information request - Childrens & Social
Services Commissioning

 

 

Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

 

1. Can you please explain your commissioning processes for providers of
accommodation and/or

support in respect to looked after children in residential care/looked
after children in semi-independent

placements/care leavers/uasc. Do you spot purchase, have framework
agreements or have block

contracts in each of these categories?

 

2. If you have framework agreements and/or block contracts for
accommodation and/or support in

respect tolooked after children in residential care/looked after children
in semi-independent

placements/care leavers/uasc, please specify when each of these are due to
be re-tendered.

 

3. Do organisations need to go through a pre-registration process to
accommodate looked after children

in residential care/looked after children in semi-independent
placements/care leavers/uasc on a spot

purchase basis?

 

4. Do you have local authority run provisions for looked after children in
residential care/looked after

children in semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc? If so, how many
of each category are

currently accommodated in these facilities?

 

5. Please specify the number of looked after children in residential
care/looked after children in semi-

independent placements/care leavers/uasc accommodated currently via:

 

a. spot purchase

 

b. framework agreements

 

c. block contracts

 

6. How many care leavers/uasc aged 16-17 years old and specified in the
answer to question 4 are are

accommodated in residential children's homes?

 

7. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a looked after child
aged under 16 year in a

private residential children's home?

 

8. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc
child aged 16-17 in a private

residential children's home?

 

9. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc
child aged 16-17 in a 24/7

supervised semi-independent provision?

 

10. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a  care
leavers/uasc child aged 16-17 in an

unsupervised semi-independent provision?   Please include the cost of
floating support. Please advise if

you do not place 16-17 year olds in an unsupervised semi-independent
provision.

 

11. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing a care leavers/uasc
aged 18-24 in a 24/7

supervised semi-independent provision?  Please advise if you do not place
18-24 year olds in a

supervised semi-independent provision.

 

12. What is the 2017/18 average weekly cost of placing care leavers/uasc
18-24 year olds in an

unsupervised semi-independent provision?  Please include the cost of
floating support.

 

13. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase
commissioning, service

provision, rates and referrals for accommodating looked after children in
residential children's homes? 

Who is the specific named point of contact?

 

14. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase
commissioning, service

provision, rates and referrals for accommodating and/or supporting care
leavers/uasc aged 16-17 years

old?  Who is the specific named point of contact?

 

15. Who should be approached within the council to discuss spot purchase
commissioning, service

provision, rates and referrals for accommodating and/or supporting care
leavers/uasc aged 18-24 years

old?  Who is the specific named point of contact?

 

16. Who should be approached within the council to discuss framework
agreement/block purchase

commissioning for accommodating looked after children in residential
care/looked after children in

semi-independent placements/care leavers/uasc?  Who is the specific named
point of contact?

 

17. Please can you provide me with a list of all of your current suppliers
signed up to framework

agreements/block purchase contracts for accommodating looked after
children in residential

care/looked after children in semi-independent placements/care
leavers/uasc?

 

Yours faithfully,

 

niilesh bhalanee

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