Decision details
Bath West Children's Centre Service Procurement (WL)
Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Children and Young People and Communities
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The Bath West Children’s Centre Service
is a key part of the Early Help offer for Bath and North East
Somerset. The contract expires at the end of March 2023 but it is
recommended to extend for a further year until March 2024 before
considering the future longer term tender options to allow
sufficient time to ensure the future children’s centre
service aligns with emerging national key policies and areas of
work, such as Family Hubs and SEND Review, to ensure that we go out
to tender for the right service.
Decision:
The Cabinet Member agrees that the Bath West Children’s Centre servicecontract shallbe awardedto thecurrent provider(Action for Children)for afurther yearfrom 1st April2023 until31st March2024.
Reasons for the decision:
To enable alignment in the re-commissioning of the Bath West children’scentre servicewith emergingnational keypolicies andareas of work.
Alternative options considered:
The option to undertake a tender exercise for a new contract to commencein April2024 wasconsidered butdiscounted toallow time to consider the impact of emerging policies.
Publication date: 27/07/2022
Date of decision: 27/07/2022
Effective from: 04/08/2022
Accompanying Documents:
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