Childrens & Social Services Commissioning
Dear Middlesbrough 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,
nilesh bhalani
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Dear Nilesh bhalani
REF NO: 012590
Thank you for your recent enquiry, received on 23/03/2018, in relation
to Childrens and social services commissioning. I can confirm that your
enquiry is receiving attention and a response will be provided within 20
working days following receipt of your enquiry as allowed under the
Freedom of Information Act legislation.
In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I will
let you know the likely charges before proceeding.
Please do not hesitate to contact me direct on (01642) 729696/729698 or
email [2][Middlesbrough Council request email] should you require any further advice or
assistance with this or any other matter.
Yours sincerely
Information Governance Assistant
Organisation and Governance
Performance and Partnerships
Middlesbrough Council
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Dear Nilesh
REF NO: 012590
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your
request received on 23 March 2018.
In your request you asked for the following information:
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?
Response:
We have all of the above categories.
2. If you have framework agreements and/or block contracts for
accommodation and/or support in respect to looked 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.
Response:
Block contract – Dec 2022 + 5 year extension.
Residential framework – March 2020.
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?
Response:
Yes they need to meet the registration requirements for the TEES Valley
Framework.
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?
Response:
Children’s homes – we currently have 3 local authority children’s homes
with 11 places.
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
Response:
24.
b. framework agreements
Response:
22.
c. block contracts
Response:
7.
6. How many care leavers/uasc aged 16-17 years old and specified in the
answer to question 4 are accommodated in residential children's homes?
Response:
Zero.
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?
Response:
£3,185.66.
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?
Response:
£2,537.94.
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?
Response:
The information you requested is not held centrally. In order to provide
the information in the format you requested, it would require an extensive
search through individual files to compile the requested information.
Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act allows public authorities to
refuse to answer requests for information if the cost of complying would
exceed the "appropriate limit" prescribed in the Regulations. The
appropriate limit as set out in the Act is £450 (an hourly rate of £25 per
person per hour for a maximum of 18 hours in total).
To fully comply with your request we have estimated it would breach the
appropriate fees limit of £450. The Council feels that at this time we do
not have the resources to carry out the above search for a fee and
therefore we must partially refuse your request.
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.
Response:
Please see above response provided for question 9.
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.
Response:
Please see above response provided for question 9.
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.
Response:
Please see above response provided for question 9.
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?
Response:
[1][email address]
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?
Response:
[2][email address]
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?
Response:
[3][email address]
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?
Response:
[4][email address]
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?
Response:
Cambian Childcare
A Significant Other
Acorn Care
Approach
Arronbeth
BetterCare Keys Ltd
Broadwood Educational Services Limited
BetterCare Keys Ltd
Keys Childcare Limited
Birtenshaw
Care 4 Children Residential Services
Cambian ChildCare
Care Today
Duty of Care Ltd
Evolution Childrens Services
Farfield House
Hennessy Childrens Services
Highfield Northeast Ltd
Highfield Northeast Ltd
Hopscotch Care Ltd
Huntercombe
Meadows Care
North East Specialist Therapeutic Services
North Lakes Childrens Services
Options Group
Pathfinders Childcare Ltd
Pear Tree Projects Ltd
Pebblescare
Sandcastle Care
The Caldecott Foundation
Witherslack Group
Young Foundations Ltd
Hillcrest Childrens Services Limited
Holme Farm Residential Village Ltd
ID Support
Lytham Care
Safe Base Care
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Yours sincerely
Steph Robson
Information & Compliance Officer
Finance, Governance & Support
P.O. Box 500,
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Email: [6][Middlesbrough Council request email]
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