The Partnership and Planning Team, as part of Homelessness Services is the lead team for commissioning homelessness and housing support services in the Council.
The service is aimed at people at risk of homelessness and towards independent living and self-sustainment. The course has a focus on basic cooking and skills.
The City of Edinburgh Council seek interest from suitably qualified care home operators for the provision of operational care home management and staffing. Currently the council has two 60 bed care homes which are strategically delivered through the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) delivering a range of dependency levels to older people. These are currently residential, nursing, dementia, specialist dementia and complex care.
EHSCP will assess and refer all potential residents to the service. The Provider will be expected to accept all residents assessed as suitable for the care home unless there are significant concerns around safety of existing residents.
The opportunity includes the leasing and maintenance of the building(s) and this lease is held with the Council.
It is anticipated the annual value of both contracts will be in the region of 4,700,000 GBP. Values are subject to change.
The Council and NHS Lothian, through the EHSCP, have a statutory duty to provide access to independent advocacy services to people who meet the requirements of Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) act 2007, the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016, The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003. Section 259 of the 2003 Act sets out the main provisions for independent advocacy. Independent advocacy supports an advocacy partner's right to have their own voice heard in decisions made about their health and well-being. Independent advocacy enables vulnerable people to be heard and promotes social inclusion.
Independence is key in the advocacy partners right to advocacy, because it is vital that the role of independent advocacy is not compromised in any way. Independence ensures that the advocacy services provided are divorced from the interests of those persons concerned with the advocacy partner's care and welfare.
Independent advocacy services can only be provided by organisations who meet the requirements of the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA) or equivalent. The SIAA define an independent advocacy organisation as “an organisation that only provides independent advocacy and all the activities it undertakes are about providing, promoting, supporting and defending independent advocacy. Independence means that it does not provide any other services and is structurally, financially and psychologically separate from other organisations and interests”.
Information about independent advocacy services will need to be communicated to advocacy partners in a way which each advocacy partners can understand, taking account of any special communication needs they may have. Such needs may arise, for example, where the advocacy partners is deaf or hard of hearing or has a visual impairment, a learning disability or where their first language is not English. n addition, any information provided in writing should be clear and in a style and language which can be easily understood by the individual advocacy partner.
The Service shall be predominately provided face to face to Advocacy Partners within the city of Edinburgh from either the office premises or in an agreed venue or space within the locality where the Advocacy Partner resides. If the Advocacy Partner is in a hospital ward, then the Service shall be delivered there.
The City of Edinburgh Council are looking to procure a suitably qualified Care at Home service or Specialist Supported Accommodation service to provide the management of/ and supply of high quality carers to support the care for a 18 year old young person (G) who has a diagnosis of learning disability, autism and mood disorder and displays challenging behaviour. G is blind due to his self-injurious behaviours.
The City of Edinburgh Council are looking to procure a suitably qualified Care at Home service or Specialist Supported Accommodation service to provide the management of/ and supply of high-quality carers to support the care for an 18 year old young woman (E) who has a diagnosis of Autism, Hyperacusis, Mysophonia, OCD and can display challenging behaviour.
The City of Edinburgh Council are urgently seeking a suitably qualified Care at Home Provider to provide the management of/ and supply of high-quality carers (preferably female) to support the home care for a 13-year-old girl (M) who has a diagnosis of Dravet’s Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy and requires support with all aspects of her life. M also has a severe visual impairment and is gastrostomy fed.
The envisaged procurement will entail a concession contract which assumes responsibility for maintaining and expanding the existing public charging estate across the South of Scotland region.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) would like to engage with the market for experienced, providers with a local presence to deliver, an Independent Advocacy and Children’s Rights Service. This service will ensure the rights of children and young people who are looked after, are protected and they have the support they require to have their voices heard in matters which affect them. Please see the attached document titled 'CT1567 PIN notice' for further detail on the requirement.
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) currently jointly commissions, with Children, Education and Justice Services (CEJS), a single coherent service providing holistic support to families affected by parental substance use.
The contract has been in place for 8 years and EHSCP and CEJS now wish to gauge interest in continuing provision. The need for the service remains however new guidance and policy including The Promise, Principles for Holistic Whole Family Support, Rights, Respect and Recovery (2018) and Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol use in Scotland (2021), have informed work to update the specification.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) is looking to develop a residential led scheme on the site of the former Castlebrae High School, located in the North East Locality, on off Greendykes Road. The site is approximately 4.36 hectares (10.77 acres) in size. The scheme has been developed to the end of RIBA Stage 2 with a preferred design identified.
The Council is considering procurement options for the site in order to identify the most appropriate route to market for the delivery of this opportunity.
The current ambition for the site is to deliver 307 affordable and private for sale units.
The City of Edinburgh Council has identified a number of prospective heat network zones in the city. The Council is looking to establish a Framework Agreement to commission feasibility studies providing more detailed information on the cost and carbon reduction opportunities in each zone.
The City of Edinburgh Council (The Council) is seeking to appoint a Provider to deliver a contract for the provision of diversionary services for children and young people at risk of criminal exploitation around Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Please see the attached documents for further information.
External service provision is required for an online mental health and wellbeing support service with counselling support desirable. This is for our children, young people and young adults (age 5-26) living in Edinburgh.
The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking to create a Framework of providers in line with the National Improvement Framework for Education. The vision for education in Edinburgh is to ensure excellence by raising attainment and improving outcomes through Accredited Pathways and Certified Counsellors and Therapists: ensuring that every child and young person achieves the highest standards in literacy and numeracy, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to shape their future as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors.
The City of Edinburgh Council will realise this vision by achieving equity: ensuring every child and young person has the same opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background, social circumstances, additional needs or shared protected characteristics, with a particular focus on closing the poverty related attainment gap, and improving mental health and wellbeing.
In order to achieve this, The City of Edinburgh Council will work to reduce the Poverty Related Attainment Gap (PRAG) through a transdisciplinary approach. Delivery of excellence will be achieved via the Edinburgh Imperative, which has four key themes to support reduction of the PRAG: Attendance, Literacy & Numeracy, Pathways, Health and Wellbeing.
Collaboration and relationship building with partner providers is a key theme to support young people’s outcomes being at the heart of everything we do. Partner Providers will support schools to provide a service which ensures pupils receive high quality education which meets their needs, delivers improved educational outcomes and avoids exclusion.
The City of Edinburgh Council are encouraging a ‘Place Based’ approach to services and supports to families and young people. The intention is to develop comprehensive supports that are within 20minutes of any identified need.
Background
The City of Edinburgh Council is committed to getting it right for every child. Our priorities include helping children to be active, healthy, and nurtured, improving achievement, and closing any gaps in attainment.
The City of Edinburgh is working alongside Providers to build a Framework which incorporates a range of accredited pathways and certified counselling and therapies, that will be accessible to all children and young people. This will incorporate their learning needs, their interests and aid inclusion.
Current Engagement
The City of Edinburgh Council purchases services from independent providers to achieve the above vision. An average of 124 different schools use these provisions every year. Edinburgh is committed to ensuring the highest quality service and best value from services which the Council purchases.
The City of Edinburgh Council are seeking engagement on the creation of a framework agreement with payroll support providers to be part of a Payroll Support Service Framework. This is a second generation framework agreement.
The purpose of the Framework agreement is to offer a selection of Payroll Support Services for the Supported Person to choose from, in keeping with the values and principles of the Social Care (Self directed support) (Scotland) Act 2013.
This Framework Agreement does not guarantee business for the Provider for any set period of time or for any number of people.
This is a PIN to explore the market only. The Council requires childcare providers to deliver childcare in each of the four localities in Edinburgh, targeted at the areas of highest deprivation (SIMD1 and/or 2) to ensure that there is childcare provision available for low-income parents moving into or sustaining employment. The service(s) would deliver early learning and childcare (ELC) and school age childcare for children aged 0 - 12 years, ensuring that it does not duplicate the support provided by national interventions such as the 1140hrs of funded childcare.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) intends to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to install, commission, maintain, and remove temporary festive lighting infrastructure at various locations throughout the City.