Secondary education services

Tender description

Caerphilly CBC established a framework agreement for the provision of educated other than at school in 2016. This framework was tendered under the Public Contracts Regulation 2015, schedule 3, falling within Regulation 74-77, otherwise known as the Light Touch Regime. The Council is advertising the opportunity for suitable new providers to apply to join the framework in line with the tender specification and terms and conditions to ensure they continue to provide learners with the opportunity to meet the educational requirements for learners who are EOTAS. Compulsory school aged mothers who feel unable to attend their usual mainstream educational setting. Learners with short term medical needs necessitating for example recuperation following an operation or a broken limb. Education within EOTAS provision will be time limited. Reintegration will be managed by the Service Provider for each learner. Full details are contained in the ITT. Learners where medical advice indicates that alternative provision is required as a medium/long term measure. Medical advice will indicate if the learner can access provision outside of the home environment. Learners may be underachieving but not disengaged from learning generally. Learners within this tier will only remain within EOTAS provision for as long as the medical advice supports the alternative arrangement. For the majority of these learners the EOTAS provision is time limited. Reintegration will be led by the Provider. Full details are contained in the ITT. Learners with mental health needs involving Children and Mental Health Service (CAMHS) specialist advice indicates that alternative educational placement is required to support the implementation of both a care and educational plan. Medical advice will indicate whether the learner is able to access provision outside of the home environment. These learners will be experiencing emotional/social and/r behavioural needs. It is anticipated for many of the learners in Tier 3 provision they will be able to have access to reintegration to mainstream school. These learners will be underachieving with some disengagement from learning. This group of vulnerable learners may present with withdrawn or challenging behaviour. Learners will be underachieving with moderate disengagement from learning. They may have experienced a number of changes in school placement. There may be identified aspects of self harm and/or substance misuse. They will be known to social services as being on the child protection register or as a child in need (at some point, maybe historically). They will have been discussed at the inter agency forum or the brighter futures panel. Mainstream attendance levels maybe below 60 % and they may have a number of days lost to fixed term exclusions. Reintegration to the mainstream setting is less likely but should still be an aspiration for each learner. This group of vulnerable learners will present with withdrawn or challenging behaviour. There will be identified aspects of self harm and substance misuse. There will be underachievement with significant disengagement from learning. They may have experienced a number of school placements. There will be evidence of periodic difficulty coping from their earliest years in school. They will be known to social services as being on the child protection register or as a child in need (at some point, maybe historically). They will have been discussed at the inter agency forum or the brighter futures panel. Mainstream attendance levels maybe below 40 % and they may have a number of days lost to fixed term exclusions. Reintegration to the mainstream setting is less likely but should still be an aspiration for each learner. These learners present with a range of complex inter relating needs such as challenging behaviour, Autistic Spectrum Continuum (ASC) and a wide range of learning difficulties. Many of these learners may have formally attended Specialist Resource Base (SRB) provision within a mainstream setting. Learners will be underachieving and have chronic levels of disengagement from learning. They will have been in a number of school placements. There is likely to be evidence of long term difficulty coping from their earliest years in school. It is unlikely that these learners will successfully reintegrate to a mainstream setting. These learners will be known to social services and will have been discussed at the Inter agency forum or the brighter futures panel These learners will have high levels of exclusions up to 40 days lost and may be at risk of permanent exclusion. These learner’s needs are significantly more than those learners placed in Tiers 1-6. They will require specialist interventions in order to reengage them with education. Individual packages of support for curriculum, social and health needs will need to be implemented. The provider will need to engage with the families/carers to assist in the implementation of such packages. These learners are the most vulnerable with the most severely challenging behaviours exhibited. Learners are likely to have attended specialist provisions within the LA and/or may be returning from secure or residential placement. The severity of their needs is such that there has been limited sustained response to interventions, limited ability to operate independently and increased severity in outbursts of challenging physical and verbal behaviours. There may be a history of offending and extreme risk taking behaviours. Learners will be significantly underachieving with total disengagement from learning. They will have experienced a number of school placements. There will be systemic evidence of their difficulties in coping from their earliest years in school. The likelihood of any reintegration into more formal education is highly unlikely. These learners will need highly structured settings to address presenting risks with high levels of supervision in place at all times. The learners are known to social services as being child protection or child in need (currently or historically), youth offending service s, Police and/or CAMHS services.