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Durham County Council
Development of a Specialist Therapeutic Children's Home for Children with Complex Mental Health, Disability and High-Risk Needs
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 26 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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Market Engagement for the development of a specialist therapeutic Children's Home for children with complex mental health, disability and high-risk needs in County Durham.
The Council is exploring a service model that may:
• Operate as an Ofsted-registered children's home.
• Provide up to three highly individualised placements.
• Support solo living arrangements when required.
• Deliver enhanced staffing arrangements where assessed as needed.
• Operate using trauma-informed & psychologically informed approaches.
• Incorporate Positive Behaviour Support principles.
• Support restriction reduction and progression planning.
• Maintain strong links with education, health and community services.
• Promote placement stability and reduce placement breakdown.
• Support children to remain closer to home wherever possible.
• Reduce reliance on unregistered, emergency and out-of-area provision.
• Support planned transitions to less restrictive environments when safe and appropriate.
The Council is interested in understanding whether providers would favour:
• A fully provider-operated model.
• A partnership model involving local authority and health partners.
• A clinically led model.
• A hybrid therapeutic residential model.
• Alternative innovative delivery approaches.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
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- 85000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 26 Oct 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 26 October 2026.
Release 100996-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 26 Oct 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 26 October 2026. Stated change: added details of how to access the market engagement questionnaire
Release 101012-2026
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05/ Limits
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-079013
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Tue 27 Oct 2026, 06:12 GMT
- Read at
- Tue 27 Oct 2026, 08:09 GMT
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