Short Breaks pseudo DPS/Framework

<p>This procurement is to establish a pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System/framework to provide (Lot 1) Non Personal and (Lot 2) Personal care via call-offs for individual packages of support for children with disabilities. <br />Short Breaks for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities, come in many different forms. Short break provision can range from a few hours a week to an allocated number of overnight breaks per year.<br />Short breaks can include day, evening, overnight and weekend activities and may take place in the child&rsquo;s own home, the home of an approved short break carer, or a residential or community setting.</p>
<p>The provision of short breaks is considered an essential part of the support provided to families of disabled children and young people.</p>
<p>Short breaks are intended to have positive benefits for both disabled children and young people and their parents and carers. Short breaks have a dual purpose:<br />1. To provide children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities, opportunities to enjoy fun social, leisure or educational activities, with or without their parent or carer<br />2. To provide parents or carers a break from caring, enabling them to have time to undertake whatever they would like to do, such as leisure activities, day-to-day tasks, spending time with other family members or education/training opportunities.<br />East Riding of Yorkshire Council has a statutory duty under paragraph 6(1)(c) of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Children Act, to provide a range of services which is sufficient to assist carers to continue to provide care or to do so more effectively. In particular, the local authority must provide, as appropriate, a range of -<br />(a) day-time care in the homes of disabled children or elsewhere,<br />(b) overnight care in the homes of disabled children or elsewhere.<br />(c) educational or leisure activities for disabled children outside their homes, and<br />(d) services available to assist carers in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays.</p>
<p>The procurement fall under the Light Touch regime</p>