Non Specialist Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People

RMBC is seeking to commission Providers to deliver a range of non-specialist short break services for disabled children and young people, including Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

The contract(s) as a whole will be for 330 individuals to receive a short breaks service with each individual having a standard entitlement of 18 hours of short break provision per annum.

The standard entitlement is to be delivered as a mix of group, outreach and individual sessions as required to meet the need of service users and their families.

All tenderers must bid for a mixed provision of group, outreach and individual sessions.

Key times for service delivery will be weekday evenings, weekends and school holidays.

Tenderers should set out how much of the short break activity they wish to bid for and what form their proposal will take.

For example whether the provision is to be weekend and/or weekday, term time or non-term time activity, for the whole or part of the cohort of individuals.

Tenders should detail how many sessions they will hold, where and when, numbers of children and young people to attend each session and/or individual activity and their age range.

Tenderers should detail how they plan to move the service to income generation as well as plans to accommodate young people in receipt of direct payments.