Issue - decisions

The Cabinet Member:

1)            agrees the proposal for officers to conduct a thorough review of the Observational Contact Service to develop and improve the experiences of children & young people and their families and to explore the possibility of providing the service in a variety of ways including bringing it back in-house and report back within 6 months with an option appraisal;

2)            approves the proposal to recommission and retender a contact service framework of providers to be called-off as necessary for a period of up to four years; and

3)            delegates authority to the Director of Finance and Commercial Services and in consultation with the Executive Director of People’s Portfolio or his nominated representative to award the framework contract(s).