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Request for Information - 2018/16662 - Looked after children

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Request for Information - 2018/16663 - Looked after children

Thank you for your request for information received on 26/03/2018.

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Wandsworth Request for Information - 2018/16663 - Looked after children

I refer to your request for information received on 20/03/2018. Please
find our response below.

Your request:

 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 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.

 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?

Our response: 

 1. The commissioning of Residential placements is done through the London
Care Services Model contract. Semi – Independent provision is
commissioned on a spot purchase basis.  Care leaver supported
accommodation is part of block contract for vulnerable young adults. 
USASC accommodation for 16+ is purchased through a contract
arrangement with one provider managed through the housing department. 
For USASC under 16, placements are found with in house foster carers
or commissioned using the London Care Services Model Contract for IFAs
and Residential Units.  

 2. N/A

 3. All Residential homes will be visited by the Placements Commissioning
Team prior to any placement being made, this is in addition to all
relevant OFSTED registration and latest reports being received and at
to minimum of a Good rating for an inspection.  Semi – Independent
Units will also be visited by the Placement Commissioning Team before
a placement is made.  In addition all relevant polices and procedure
must be received and be of a good standard, all DBS checks for all
staff must be checked, fire safety, and all relevant health safety
documentation must be also be received and up to date.

 4. Currently we have no provision run by the council.  The Council has
commissioned a provider to run a Wandsworth Children’s Home which will
be to accommodate a total of nine Looked After Children which will
open in the summer.   

 5.  

 a. Residential 39, Semi – Independent Unit 46
 b. 0 across all categories
 c. Care Leaver Supported Accommodation - 67

 6. 0

 7. £3,637

 8. £3,413

 9. £1,168

10. We do not place 16-17 year olds in unsupervised accommodation.

11. The properties we use all have support services and on-call
arrangements, but do not have on site 24/7 staff provision.

12. £200 for support costs

13. to 16. James Wheeler Head of Children’s Commissioning

17. Care Leaver Accommodation – Centrepoint, Nacro, One Housing.  USAC 16+
- Pangea.   

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