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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

SPECIALIST FOSTER CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO OFFEND
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Contract type: Service contract
Contracting authority: Warwickshire County Council. Web: (Heather Boyd), CV34 4RL.
Object of the contract
The Awarding Authority requires a single provider to deliver a Bail Remand, Intensive Care & Support (BRICS) service, which is to be a fostering service working in partnership with Warwickshire Youth Justice Service (WYJS) to provide children and young people, 10 – 17 years, supervised by WYJS with alternative to custody placements for remand, sentence and rehabilitation into the community from custody. CSE children and young people are aged 8 – 17.
The requirement is for four carers for BRICS provision and one carer for CSE:
Four specialist foster placements providing up to 192 weeks accommodation per annum as a credible alternative to the use by the courts of youth detention accommodation or for those young people who have or are alleged to have committed serious criminal offences. Additionally these will be to provide accommodation under Section 38(6) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984, as an alternative to secure accommodation.
One specialist safeguarding foster placement providing up to 48 weeks accommodation for a young person aged 8 – 17 years inclusive at risk/victim of CSE .
Additionally WYJS will use BRICS to provide the court with accommodation as part of a residence requirement for orders and Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programmes, as a credible alternative to custody, where no other appropriate accommodation is available.
CPV: 85311000, 85311300
Administrative Information
PROJECT – 00004684
Date documents can be requested until 27.7.2017
For further information on the above contract please visit Web:
Other Information
Estimated value of requirement: Estimated Value : The initial contract term will be 4 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 36 months
Contract Start : 01 April 2018
Contract End : 31 March 2022
Extension Clause Date : 31 March 2025
Process : OJEU
TKR-2017628-EX-500695