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CYAD Improvement Support

London Borough of Harrow Published 22 Dec 2025 Find a Tender

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RegionLondon
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CHANNEL 3 CONSULTING LTD · · active

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Like many councils, we have seen our spend on support for children with disabilities grow rapidly in the last few years. We are seeking external support to help us:

-Develop our approach to care purchasing and market management
-Maximising health and education income
-Ensuring practice is sufficiently progression focused

This support needs to be a mix of putting the procedures and tools in place for us to manage long term along with practical 'doing' support, especially focused on provider negotiations. Requirements include the following:

-Care market management
oSkilling up our Arranging Care team to start purchasing for children with disabilities
oDeveloping procedures and tools to support the Arranging Care team
oDeveloping approach, procedures, and tools to support contract management
oDeveloping approach to reducing cost for existing high-cost placements
oDelivery of work to negotiate with most expensive provision to try and reduce cost / ensure they are working in a progression-focused manner
oTo identify an approach to source specialist fostering capacity as an alternative to residential provision
-Maximising health and education income
oPutting clear procedures in place to apply for health funding
oPutting clear procedures in place to apply for education funding
oSupport to make the case to NWL ICB for better working with NHS
oDelivery of work to make the case to the relevant ICBs for health funding for the most expensive provision where insufficient health funding has been agreed
oDelivery of work to make the case to the education team for education funding for the most expensive provision where insufficient education funding has been agreed
-Progression focused practice
oReview case files for most expensive provision and audit the strength of practice
oMake recommendations as to how practice can be improved

notice history

1 notice published against this procurement.

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22 Dec 2025 Contract details (UK7) Procurement Act 2023 085275-2025

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