Contract award record
NEPO - Children's Complaints, Advocacy and Representation
Tender value £500,000
Notice details
- Published
- Category
- services
- Buyer region
- North East
- Source
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Public buyer and contract winner
Award value£1,500,000
- AwardedCompleted
- StartCompleted
- EndCompleted
Work description
The Local Authorities have a statutory obligation to provide: 1. Children's advocacy 2. Independent Investigating Officers (IIO) (Children's complaints) 3. Independent Persons (IP) (Children's complaints) 4. Panel Chairs and Panellists for Stage three statutory Children's Social Care com-plaints 5. Independent Persons for Secure Accommodation reviews
Newcastle will be the Lead Local authority and work with other regional Local Authorities to put in place a single procurement solution to cover these five service areas. The solution will be put in place following a competitive tender exercise carried out under the EU requirements of the PCRR2015.
The procurement exercise will be carried out under the NEPO shared service agreement.