Children's External Placements Provider Engagement Day

Children's External Placements Provider Engagement Day

Wednesday 17th October, 9.30 am - 4.30pm (split into a morning session, 9.30-1 and an afternoon session 2 - 4.30) at the Conference Room of Cambridge Professional Development Centre (CPDC), Foster Road, Cambridge CB2 9NL.

Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council will be undertaking a procurement exercise in the Autumn of 2018 for Independent Fostering Agencies, Residential Children's Homes, Independent Schools and Tuition for a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).

Before we go out to tender, we would like to invite you, as Providers and stakeholders, to an event to discuss the services we hope to procure, and to give you some information about the timelines involved, and the outcomes we hope to achieve through re-tendering these services. The event will be split into two sessions:

Morning session (9.30 - 1, for everyone to attend). To include:

Afternoon session (2 - 4.30pm). To include:

More information, including an agenda and venue details (directions, parking etc.) will follow, but please hold the date in your diaries for this event.

We would be grateful if you could confirm your attendance by emailing childrenscommissioningteam@cambridgeshire.gov.uk by Friday 12th October.

Please indicate when you respond whether you wish to attend the morning session only or the morning and the afternoon. Please also be advised that there will be a limit of 1 attendee per Provider, in order to ensure that every organisation that wants to attend, can. If there is additional space then will notify you that another attendee can attend on a first come first serve basis.