Decision details

Surrey County Council (SCC) has a statutory duty to support disabled children, young people and their families. Personal Support is part of the short breaks offer but is a specialist service and is only available following assessment. 

Personal Support is home-based care, primarily used by SCC’s Children with Disabilities team to provide families with respite care (short break), in accordance with their assessed needs. Personal support may also be used to provide other types of support such as emergency or crisis support and support outside the home for children and young people to access and be included in social and leisure actives in their local communities.

The services provided through the new contract will be available to all of the Children’s Services teams and the procurement value reflects this scope.

The new DPS for Personal Support Services will commence on 1^st April 2024 and it will be in place for 3 years, up to 31^st March 2027. There is also an available extension of 2 years taking this to 31^st March 2029.

It was AGREED that:

1. Surrey County Council will award a DPS to deliver Short Breaks Services (see Procurement Report).
2. Surrey County Council will award Call-Off Contracts to the successful Suppliers (see Procurement Report) to Lots 1-6 as a result of the 1^st Mini-Competition run in parallel to the setup of the DPS
3. All future Call Off-Contracts for individual placements and block contracts via a mini competition made under the DPS will be approved by the Director of Commissioning and/or Head of Service.

Surrey County Council will be able to meet statutory duties and ensuring we provide Short Breaks to Children and Young People. This is also a compliant route to market meeting the requirements of ‘The Public Contracts Regulations 2015’.

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