Purpose

Surrey County Council are requesting approval to access the new
framework tendered by Southampton City Council on behalf of a
consortium of Local Authorities across the Southern Region of
England. The consortium came together to commission
children’s residential care using a framework agreement, in
order to fulfil their statutory duty to provide high quality
residential care to looked after children within their Authority.
The framework is a route to market, with pre-qualifying, Ofsted
registered children’s care homes with fixed price
points.
 

Content

It
was AGREED that:
 

1.          
Surrey County Council will procure Children’s residential
home via the newly established framework, where
appropriate

2.          
All call off contracts for Individual Placements will be made by
the Gateway to Resources team using an individual placement
agreement
 

Reasons for the decision

Surrey County Council will be
able to meet statutory duties and ensuring we provide
Children’s Residential Services to children and young people.
This is also a compliant route to market meeting the requirements
of the Procurement and Contracts Regulations 2015.

Alternative options considered

N/A.