Short Breaks for Children with Disabilities

Middlesbrough Council is actively seeking to improve the range of services which it commissions to provide Short Breaks and Positive Activities for Children and Young People with disabilities. The Council wishes to promote the welfare needs of Children and Young People and to meet the needs of families with caring responsibilities. Middlesbrough Council's Children's services wish to conduct a pre-market engagement exercise to explore where providers can demonstrate experience of working with children and young people with disabilities. The proposed specification will be for three lots: LOT 1 - Personal Support LOT 2 - After school and Holiday clubs LOT 3 - Complex personal support Please find attached the draft specification, which provides further details on the expectations for each Lot. Please note that there is likely to be amendments to the specification. Every provider will be quality checked to ensure compliant with minimum requirements and work to a specification and identify an agreed pricing structure. This will ensure we have a framework contract with a list of providers who have demonstrated they meet the requirements and will enable Middlesbrough Council staff to direct award to select supplier and or buy according to prices. How to Participate Please provide details about • Your Organisation • Your relevant experience • Potential Activity to be delivered. Please can you complete the attached questionnaire and submit to us through the message centre on the OPEN portal (https://www.open-uk.org) https://www.open-uk.org/opportunities/overview/public/ddea69df-3401-40df-a682-4974cebc5378 If you have any queries, please send these through the OPEN portal and we will respond as soon as we can. Note that we may share your anonymised query and our answer to it with other providers. MBC are not responsible for any supplier costs associated with responding to this Market Engagement.