CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)

Lot 1: Standard Residential Placements (Individual and Block Placements)

These will enable children to live in residential homes, where they will receive high quality care in a safe and enriching environment, supporting a broad range of needs, including emotional and behavioural issues, sexualised behaviours, and physical disabilities. Understanding of the difficulties children may have experienced and how this may present, will require a therapeutic parenting approach. Services will be needed for a variety of reasons and durations. It is intended that residential children’s homes are not used as an end destination for children in care; but are used appropriately to enable stability, safety and support to children and young people so that they can be supported towards family reunification where it is safe and appropriate, step forward to a family foster home, build their interdependence for early adulthood, and always having high aspirations for them.

Lot 2: Innovation and Partnership Working (Optional Lot)

This Lot is intended to allow commissioners to design, and with the providers, deliver bespoke services designed to meet complex needs that are not easily met through standard residential care. One way could be through a competitive conversation to enable specialist support to be put in place in response to a child or young person’s individual needs, with additional elements reflected within the individual placement agreement (IPA). This type of approach will also create scope for targeted, developmental work with our providers to develop a multi-disciplinary model of residential assessment provision for children and young people in crisis, which will focus on meeting the needs of children who experience high placement instability.

2 extension option(s) available, 0 taken; up to 48 months in total

Option: 24 months, from 2028-02-01, to 2030-01-31, Extension Period 1

Option: 24 months, from 2030-02-01, to 2032-01-31, Extension Period 2