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Independent foster care providers Provider Engagement Event 29 July 2014

Independent foster care providers Provider Engagement Event 29 July 2014. Welcome, introductions and housekeeping Becky Polito, Newcastle City Council Lead Officer for NE7 Consortium. Feedback from event on 20 June 2014 Staying Put On today’s agenda for further discussion Value for money

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Independent foster care providers Provider Engagement Event 29 July 2014

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  1. Independent foster care providers Provider Engagement Event 29 July 2014

  2. Welcome, introductions and housekeeping Becky Polito, Newcastle City Council Lead Officer for NE7 Consortium

  3. Feedback from event on 20 June 2014 • Staying Put • On today’s agenda for further discussion • Value for money • Core-costs remaining the same • Looking to implement long-term and cost-volume discounts • Review of monitoring processes • Contract compliance based on existing but will be expanded to include new ‘key areas’ for regular review and scrutiny, including: • Child sexual exploitation; training, policy and procedures • More information on missing children • Greater clarity around expectations of communicating safeguarding concerns and incidents • Preparation for independence • Co-production of outcomes monitoring

  4. Staying Put • Number of current young people in placement turning 18 years between 1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016

  5. Staying Put (Introduction for table-top discussion and group feedback) • Various government guidance published since 2013 • The Children’s Partnership has produced a ‘good practice guide’ this month • Legislative requirement within the Children and Families Action 2014 • NE7 local authorities are very keen to get new arrangements from 2015 ‘ fit for purpose’ for young people, carers, providers and us

  6. Staying Put (Introduction for table-top discussion and group feedback) • ‘key questions’ for the NE7: • How does each provider see these arrangements being set up: • Local authority – provider agency • Local authority – carer • What messages are providers giving to carers? • What messages are carers giving to providers about how they see things working; what is carers understanding and what are their anxieties?

  7. Staying Put • Early consideration of a sub-regional approach across the NE7 local authorities if arrangements sit outside of the NE7 framework contract

  8. Break Resume session at 11:20am

  9. Case study exercise • Task for the session is to • Review anonymised referrals and identify what current price banding the child / young person would be in • Identify what additional information would be useful within the referral to help get clarity on the needs of the child / young person • Purpose of the session • Compare outcome of providers views with those of local authorities • Inform future need bandings descriptors

  10. WARNING Don’t move to next slide until after case study exercise No peeking…

  11. Case study exercise…the results Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 1 Level 2

  12. Transition arrangements • Timescales • Existing placements will need to move onto new terms and conditions with six-months of the start of the framework • Processes • Price bandings will be based on the current assessed needs of the child or young person at the point of transfer • Would aim to have discussions between local authorities and providers • Process may vary across local authorities

  13. Summary and close • Volunteers for co-production of outcome monitoring • This session marks the end of consultation with providers • Maybe additional an event to go through procurement process • Consultation with young people will continue • Two-stage competitive tender process under Procurement rules • NEPO portal www.nepoportal.org • Looking at the following timescales: • stage 1 PQQ documentation 19.09.2014 – 18.10.2014 • stage 2 ITT documents 31.10.2014 – 04.12.2014

  14. Questions? Becky Polito, Newcastle City Council becky.polito@newcastle.gov.uk Phone: 0191 211 5877

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