Childrens & Social Services Commissioning
Dear Lancashire County 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
Dear Ms Bhalani,
Request for information
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Information Governance Team
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Dear Ms Bhalani
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information, made under the provisions of the
above Act, please see below our response.
Response:
Please see attached document. Please note for question 3 we are awaiting a
response form the relevant service. As soon as we are in receipt of this
we shall forward to you as a matter of urgency.
If you have any queries regarding any of the above, or you require any
additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the team quoting
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Yours sincerely
Information Access Officer
Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
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Dear Ms Bhalani
Further to the email below. Please see response to question 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?
There is not a formal pre-registration process.
Details of new providers are added to our distribution list for contact to
be made with such providers in the event of a spot placement being
required. If however a placement is required on such a basis then we
would ensure that Ofsted registration, latest Ofsted ratings, Statement of
Purpose documents are requested and perused by both Contract Monitoring
colleagues and CSC before a decision is made about placement.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Officer
Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
T: 0300 123 6701
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Subject: FOI Request Ref:945.498 (AA) Interim Response
Dear Ms Bhalani
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information, made under the provisions of the
above Act, please see below our response.
Response:
Please see attached document. Please note for question 3 we are awaiting a
response form the relevant service. As soon as we are in receipt of this
we shall forward to you as a matter of urgency.
If you have any queries regarding any of the above, or you require any
additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the team quoting
reference number 945.498 (AA)
Yours sincerely
Information Access Officer
Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
T: 0300 123 6701
W: [1]www.lancashire.gov.uk
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