Short Breaks for Children who are Disabled and/or have Complex Health Needs

Tender description

Project Scope: We are looking to secure suitable service providers to join appropriate frameworks in order to provide a range of short break opportunities for children, young people and their carers. The Framework categories are: Framework Category 1: Specialist Residential overnight short breaks Framework Category 2: Specialist Saturday, after school and holiday short break sessions based in Weymouth area Framework Category 3: Specialist Saturday, after school and holiday short break sessions Framework Category 4: Sessional services (at home or in the community) including befriending/buddy/PA schemes Framework Category 5: After school, holiday and weekend play, sports and activity sessions for all ages Framework Category 6: Activity, day and evening sessions for young people aged 15-18 years Category 1 - 3 Support for Children and Young People, from providers who successfully gain a place on a framework will be called-off the framework by the Children who are Disabled Teams, Childrens Services, working alongside the families, who meet the threshold to receive this support Category 4 ? 6 Once Providers are successfully onto the frameworks, a mini competition will be ran annually at the start of the financial year in order to allocate funds and define support for the year. The mini competition for the financial year 2016/17 will run from 24th February 2016.