Community Support Framework - CAFS/2025/290
- Buyer
- Stoke on Trent City Council
- Value
- £20,400,000
- Closes
- 13 November 2026
- Where
- Stoke-on-Trent, the West Midlands
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking for multiple care providers to deliver support services to disabled children and vulnerable young people in their area. They want organizations to provide short breaks (respite care), planned intervention support, and urgent same-day or next-day emergency care through a framework agreement.
What the buyer wants
• Deliver Short Breaks (respite care activities) for disabled children in their homes or community settings, with some lots requiring personal care skills • Provide planned intervention services including positive behaviour support, mentoring, structured activities, and support for children on the edge of entering care • Deliver urgent short-term emergency provision available within 24 hours of need, including complex care for children with high-level health and behaviour needs
Lots
- Lot 1a - Short Breaks: Non-CQC
- Lot 1b - Short Breaks: CQC
- Lot 1c - Short Breaks for Complex Needs: CQC
- Lot 2 - Planned Intervention
- Lot 3a - Urgent Short Term: Non-CQC
- Lot 3b - Urgent Short Term: CQC
- Lot 3c - Urgent Short Term & Complex Needs: CQC
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a social care contract requiring CQC registration for most lots, professional safeguarding qualifications, and proven experience with disabled children and vulnerable young people. Most general tradespeople without social care experience and CQC registration will not qualify. This is NOT a construction, cleaning, or facilities maintenance contract.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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