Speech and Language Therapy Service

Tender description

Norfolk County Council has awarded a contract for an integrated speech and language therapy service to cover the locality of Norfolk and Waveney. The provider will work with children and young people aged between 0-19 and will cover a whole range of speech and language activity, including workforce development across different settings (i.e. early years, schools, colleges). The provider will work co-productively and alongside parents, carers and settings, and deliver the requirements for clinical health pathways and statutory requirements around Educational Health Care Plans. Individual therapy will also be required for children with specialist needs. Lot 1: Norfolk County Council has awarded a contract for an integrated speech and language therapy service to cover the locality of Norfolk and Waveney. The provider will work with children and young people aged between 0-19 and will cover a whole range of speech and language activity, including workforce development across settings (i.e. early years, schools, colleges). The provider will work co-productively and alongside parents, carers and settings, and deliver the requirements for clinical health pathways and statutory requirements around Educational Health Care Plans. Individual therapy will also be required for children with specialist needs. The value given is for the maximum contract term of 10 years and includes one off backlog/mobilisation investment to address the impact of the national pandemic, but excludes annual inflationary uplifts, which will apply from April 2023. The initial term of the contract is 5 years with the option to extend by 3 years then a further 2 years.