Health and social work services

Tender description

The Council has a requirement to enhance the provision of continuing care and aftercare for care experienced young people. It has been identified that a number of young people who wish to leave fostering or residential care are not able to live independently due to the lack of a targeted bespoke service which provides community based supportive accommodation with a high level of support and 24/7 out of hours response. The Council is therefore carrying out this market engagement in order to consider some potential solutions which may be available in the market place, in order to provide better support for these young people in the future. The Council has a requirement to enhance the provision of continuing care and aftercare for care experienced young people. It has been identified that a number of young people who wish to leave fostering or residential care are not able to live independently due to the lack of a targeted bespoke service which provides community based supportive accommodation with a high level of support and 24/7 out of hours response. Proposed model The Council is currently considering the below model, and would welcome feedback from potential bidders on this: The proposed service will include 2 main elements: 1) 24/7 intensive support As part of the Council’s commitment to develop a wider range of options for young people who choose to leave care, the Council is looking to commission a model of high level support with accommodation for 16 to 21 year olds (individual self-contained rooms and communal areas and/or 24/7 staffed shared houses) with support staff available 24 hours, 7 days per week. 2) emergency accommodation The service will also have capacity to provide safe emergency accommodation and support that some young people will require as an emergency/short term alternative until they resolve the cause of crisis. The model needs to take into account that young people’s needs for accommodation and support can change on a daily basis and the service can respond to emergency placements.