CYAD Improvement Support
key details
| Status | complete |
|---|---|
| Region | London |
| Procedure | direct |
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-05fb43 |
Award
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANNEL 3 CONSULTING LTD | · | · | active |
description
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 |
| o | Skilling up our Arranging Care team to start purchasing for children with disabilities |
| o | Developing procedures and tools to support the Arranging Care team |
| o | Developing approach, procedures, and tools to support contract management |
| o | Developing approach to reducing cost for existing high-cost placements |
| o | Delivery of work to negotiate with most expensive provision to try and reduce cost / ensure they are working in a progression-focused manner |
| o | To identify an approach to source specialist fostering capacity as an alternative to residential provision |
| - | Maximising health and education income |
| o | Putting clear procedures in place to apply for health funding |
| o | Putting clear procedures in place to apply for education funding |
| o | Support to make the case to NWL ICB for better working with NHS |
| o | Delivery 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 |
| o | Delivery 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 |
| o | Review case files for most expensive provision and audit the strength of practice |
| o | Make recommendations as to how practice can be improved |
notice history
1 notice published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Dec 2025 | Contract details (UK7) | Procurement Act 2023 | 085275-2025 |
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