Purpose

Recommissioning of the residential child care framework

Decision

RESOLVED:

That Committee delegated authority to the Executive Director of Families, Children & Learning to:

1)    Take all necessary steps to procure and award a framework agreement or DPS, including subsequent extensions, with Southampton City Council (SCC) and consortium partners, for the provision of residential child care placements in the independent sector commencing on or after 1 October 2024, and

2)    Procure and award call off contracts and individual placement agreements from the framework agreement or DPS outlined at 2.1(i) above.