Short Breaks Services Framework (CSC25128)
- Buyer
- Worcestershire County Council
- Value
- £14,520,000
- Closes
- 16 November 2026
- Where
- Worcester, the West Midlands
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Worcestershire County Council wants to set up a framework of approved suppliers to deliver short breaks services for disabled children and young people. They're looking for fostering providers, residential homes, domiciliary carers, and support workers across four separate service categories.
What the buyer wants
• Provide overnight respite care in foster family homes (Lot 1) or registered children's homes (Lot 2) for disabled children with complex needs • Deliver one-to-one or two-to-one domiciliary care in children's own homes covering personal care, daily living and household tasks (Lot 3) • Supply trained support workers to deliver short breaks services (Lot 4)
Lots
- Lot 1 - Overnight Fostering Short Breaks
- Lot 2 – Overnight Residential Short Breaks
- Lot 3 – Domiciliary Care
- Lot 4 – Short Breaks Support Workers
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a social care framework requiring regulatory registration (Ofsted for homes, fostering approval for carers) or care worker status: you cannot bid unless you already operate as a regulated childcare or fostering service, or have trained and background-checked care workers on payroll.
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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