Health and social work services

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Leicestershire County Council is asking providers to join the Leicestershire children and families services Gateway2Resources (G2R) Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to supply Residential and Foster Care placements to Leicestershire’s looked after children. The Council wishes to work collaboratively with providers to ensure that Leicestershire children and young people can live locally and are offered high quality, value for money placements. The Council wants to ensure that it is settling children into stable placements, as soon as possible after they’ve been taken into care, creating opportunity to plan for permanence. This model for delivery will be known as Gateway2Resources. G2R will initially focus on requests for residential children's home placements and independent fostering services. Other local authorities may also choose to use the DPS in the future which will increase the estimated contract value significantly. This DPS is being procured under the light-touch regime. Residential care for children and children's homes are there to ensure that the needs of children are met when they cannot live with their own family. They are a place for children to develop and grow, as well as providing food, shelter, and space for play and leisure in a caring environment. When the Council wishes to purchase services via the DPS it will do so by conducting a call-off process. The Council will apply filters to the providers in the relevant category (lot) on the DPS, in order to select a sub-group of providers to which the Council will issue a G2R placement request. Providers will be tiered by geographical location Tier 1 – Local, Tier 2 – Out of county. Once the appropriate Tier has been selected the Council, where required, will apply further filters to the list based on the types of placement providers can offer as outlined in their OFSTED registration and scope of their statement of purpose. Independent fostering services that enable children and young people to be placed with families who have been assessed and approved to provide a secure, warm, safe and supportive environment. When the Council wishes to purchase services via the DPS it will do so by conducting a call-off process. The Council will apply filters to the providers in the relevant category (lot) on the DPS, in order to select a sub-group of providers to which the Council will issue a G2R placement request. Providers will be tiered by geographical location Tier 1 – local, Tier 2 – out of county. Once the appropriate Tier has been selected the Council, where required, will apply further filters to the list based on the types of placement providers can offer as outlined in their OFSTED registration and the scope of their statement of purpose.