Welfare services for children and young people

Tender description

This service specification is for the provision of Residential Care Placements for Children and Young People who are looked after. The overall requirement of this Contract is that Service Users will be placed in an establishment that is able to provide a high-quality, stable, safe, supportive and enabling residential home base for each Service User. This Service may include the following but should not be limited to Care, Room and Board, Clothing, Routine Transport, Excursions, Recreational Activities. The Provider will also provide flexible, intensive support to Service Users who move from the residential establishments to independent accommodation, responding to individual need. The Provider will be a Registered Residential Care Provider and as such will be governed by the terms of that registration. The residential placements are required for a minimum of 9 Service Users aged from 15 years including young parents with their babies. The Provider will ensure that staff will be experienced and prepared to care for Service User who may have challenging behaviour. It will be a requirement of this Contract that each Service User must have their own bedroom. If the placement is a parent and baby placement, it may be required that the baby will share a room with its parent depending on individual needs. It is anticipated that the Contract will start on 1.4.2017 with the requirement that the Provider will be set up and ready to accept referrals for the Service. Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=440683 The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.