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CONTRACT AWARD FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIM SUPPORT, RECOVERY AND PREVENTION SERVCES

 

 

Meeting: 06/08/2013 - Cabinet (Item 29)

29 CONTRACT AWARD - DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIM SUPPORT, RECOVERY AND PREVENTION SERVICES pdf icon PDF 67 KB

The Director for People will submit a report summarising the recent tender process for two separate services for victims of domestic abuse. 

 

Service A will support people assessed as being at a ‘higher risk of serious harm’ and will replace the current domestic abuse victim support contract.

 

Service B is new provision that will focus on supporting people who have been assessed as being at a ‘lower risk of serious harm’ to prevent escalation of their needs.    

 

The report will recommend the awarding of the contracts to the winning provider(s) and contract award information is contained in a separate confidential report also on this agenda.

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Minutes:

Carole Burgoyne (Director for People) submitted a report on the recent tender process for two separate services of victims of domestic abuse -

 

(a)

Service A to support people assessed as being at a ‘higher risk of serious harm’ including a volunteer co-ordinator;  

(b)

Service B (a new provision) to focus on supporting people who had been assessed as being at a ‘lower risk of serious harm’ to prevent escalation of their needs and to create initiatives to raise awareness of domestic abuse amongst agencies and the public.   

 

Councillor McDonald (Cabinet Member for Public Health and Adult Social Care) introduced the proposals.

 

Subject to consideration of a separate private report also included on the Cabinet agenda detailing the evaluation process and the outcome of the tendering process, three year contracts, containing an option to extend the contracts for a further three years, would be awarded to the most economically advantageous tenderers.  

 

(See also minute 33 below)