COV - Regulation 44 Service for Coventry Children's Homes (2025)

Contract Timeline

Publication Date

16th April 2025 13:13:07 PM

Tender Deadline

14th May 2025 15:00:00 PM   Expired

Contract Summary

Coventry City Council is seeking a Provider to deliver a Regulation 44 Service to the current suite of internal homes. Regulation 44 visitors shall be recruited, selected, assessed, supported and appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Safer Recruitment and Retention of staff and associated statutory guidance and regulations. The Regulation 44 visitor will be expected to visit each home once a month auditing the service offered to our children ensuring they inspect in line with the three areas of inspection (the effectiveness of the leadership and managers, how well young people are helped and protected, and the overall experience and progress of young people) and the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015. The Regulation 44 visitor will need to collate the findings within a report and follow a process to circulate the findings to the Children's Residential Home's Registered Manager and Ofsted. Following the visit the Regulation 44 visitor will be required to track trends across the internal homes. No Pre-Market Engagement Notice was published, and a Prior Information Notice (PIN) was published on the 14th January 2025 prior to the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023. The PIN described the contract requirement and invited providers to contact the council for discussion reference contract terms and contract period and provider pricing. Market engagement was held on 13th March 2025. Items discussed including contract length and pricing terms.

Contract Details

Open Contracting ID

ocds-h6vhtk-05041f

Publication Source

Find a Tender Service

Procurement Stage

Tender

Procurement Method

Open

Procurement Method Details

Below Threshold - Open Competition

Procurement Category

Services

Tender Suitability

Framework / DPS

Contract Classification

CPV Code(s)

CPV Division(s)

Awarding Authority

COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL

Buyer Name

Buyer Email

ProcurementContracts@coventry.gov.uk

Buyer Phone

Buyer Address

PO Box 7097

Coventry

CV6 9SL

United Kingdom