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Sub-Regional Framework for Agency Placements

Sub-Regional Framework for Agency Placements. North Lincolnshire Council East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Provider Event – Agenda. Welcome & introduction Background Indicative budget Joint placement statistics

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Sub-Regional Framework for Agency Placements

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  1. Sub-Regional Framework for Agency Placements North Lincolnshire Council East Riding of Yorkshire Council

  2. Provider Event – Agenda • Welcome & introduction • Background • Indicative budget • Joint placement statistics • Feedback from children and young people who are, or have been in care, or attend/ have attended Special School.

  3. Key service requirements: • Residential • Fostering • SEN • How the process would work • Benefits to providers • Indicative timetable • What to do next • Key contacts • Questions & answers

  4. Background • What we are doing: • Implementing a formal approach to procuring agency placements from the market place. • Will be a 3 year framework, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months. • Once accepted onto the framework, individual requirements will be requested separately by East Riding and North Lincolnshire councils.

  5. Background Cont .. • Why we are doing this: • We are obligated to comply with procurement regulations and legal requirements. • Continue to develop working relationships with providers to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.

  6. Key Points: • We only go to market if the need cannot be met internally; • National drive, and usually in children and young people’s best interest, for placements to be as close to home as possible, where appropriate; • The majority of our external placements are within or just outside our Local Authority area;

  7. Indicative Budget • Please note the above information does not reflect the actual spend.

  8. Breakdown of Budget

  9. Joint Placement Statistics • Residential Care • 14 places within 30 miles from LA boundary • 6 places more than 30 miles from LA boundary • Foster Care • 88 places within 30 miles from LA boundary • 4 places more than 30 miles from LA boundary • Special Schools • 53 in county placements • 77 out of county placements

  10. Boundary % - Residential

  11. Boundary % - Foster Care

  12. In/Out of County % - SEN * Please note that the % breakdown on SEN does not fall into the ’30 mile’ boundary as measured for Residential and Foster Care.

  13. New Placements Jan - Dec 2012 Residential Care (13) Special Schools (26) Foster Care (56)

  14. Feedback from children & young people • Joint CYP participation event. • Genuine and meaningful, ensuring that CYP’s views are heard. • Views and values will be incorporated into the service specifications. • Young people will be involved in tender evaluations.

  15. Residential Placements We require providers to have: • Good quality provision (registered with Ofsted) • Local Provision • Choice • Value for money • Trained and competent staff • Placement stability • Positive Outcomes for young people • Evidence of good practice • Adhere to Safeguarding practice and Safer Recruitment processes • May include education

  16. Residential Cont … • Types of Provision Required: • Male/Female/Mixed/Solo • Current Needs: • Attachment Issues • Autism • Aspergers • Sexualised Behaviour • Challenging Behaviour • Therapeutic Needs

  17. Foster Placements • Currently we require the following type of fostering placements: • Emergency • Short term • Long term • Short breaks • Parent & Child placements • Assessment (potential future need)

  18. Foster Cont … • We require providers to have: • Local provision • Good Quality provision – adhering to fostering National Minimum Standards and regulations • Trained and competent foster carers • Good matching processes • Good recruitment and assessment processes • Adhere to Safeguarding practice and Safer Recruitment processes • Value for Money • Placement stability

  19. SEN Placements • Relates to placements in independent/non-maintained special school provision • Ideally aim to place pupils in day placements locally, but due to complexity of need/distance from home, some placements are residential • Service spec to be developed as part of this process • Placements must be able to meet needs as identified in the Statement of SEN • Main needs in relation to SEN Placements - BESD/ASC.

  20. SEN – North Lincolnshire • Current number of pupils placed in independent/non-maintained sector – 74 • 18 pupils were placed in the last 12 months (24%) • Number of day placements – 41 (55%) • Number of residential placements – 33 (45%) • Of those in residential provision – 26 are in 38 week provision (79%), 7 are in 52 week provision (21%) • Number of in county placements – 34 (46%) • Number in out of county placements – 40 (54%)

  21. SEN – East Riding • Current number of pupils placed in independent/non- maintained sector – 56 • 4 pupils were placed in the last 12 months (7%) • Number of day placements – 38 (68%) • Number of residential placements – 18 (32%) • Of those in residential provision – 10 are in 38 week provision (55%), and 8 are in 52 week provision (45%) • Number of in county placements – 19 (34%) • Number in out of county placements – 37 (66%)

  22. How the process would work Application to Join Framework Submit Application Joint Process Evaluate Applications Successful Applications added to Framework Individual LA Mini Competition Process Via YORtender North Lincolnshire Placement Requests East Riding Placement Requests Individual LA Process NLC Criteria Approve or Reject ER Criteria Approve or Reject NLC Award Contract ER Award Contract

  23. Benefits to providers • One application process for both local authorities; • Providers on the framework will be the first port of call for accessing opportunities; • Open and transparent process; • Future commissioning of placements will follow a formal process.

  24. Indicative timetable • April – Launch tender • May – Responses In • May to June – Evaluations • June to July – Provider interviews (if required) • August – Approval process • September – Contract award

  25. What to do next: • Ensure you are registered on NLC electronic tendering system, to download information from today: www.yortender.co.uk • On home page, there is a link to ‘Supplier Registration’ on left hand side. • Contract ID for this information: YORE-94HKPF • When tender is launched, it will be a new procurement with new contract ID.

  26. Key Contacts • North Lincolnshire Council: • Residential/Fostering - Haydee Barrett – 01724 296380 haydee.barrett@northlincs.gov.uk • SEN - Sheena Byron – 01724 297148 sheena.byron@northlincs.gov.uk • East Riding Council: • Residential/Fostering – John Hunter – 01482 396495 john.hunter@eastriding.gov.uk • SEN – Annette Benstead – 01482 392161 annette.benstead@eastriding.gov.uk

  27. Questions & Answers

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