Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation - Fostering Recruitment and Assessment of Foster Carers Function

Derby City Council wishes to undertake a Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation exercise with suitably qualified and experienced organisations, and interested stakeholders, in advance of a formal tendering process to Recruit and Assess Foster Carers for our in-house fostering provision. The Council is opening a consultation opportunity from Monday 12 November to Friday 30 November 2018 during which we would like to talk to the market to ascertain how we might work together to increase Derby City Council's internal foster carer provision of high quality foster carers households, who have the skills to meet the needs of our Children In Care population, by recruiting and transferring a minimum of twenty five foster carers households per annum for 2020/21 and 2021/22, within a 20 mile radius.

Please see the attached documents for further information, starting with the "Overview" document. The information you supply will be treated in the strictest confidence.

It will not be made available to future potential bidders for the new service in the event of a tendering process taking place. This is in line with Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act i.e. a qualified exemption in relation to 'Commercial Interests.

Additional information: This Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation is not an invitation to tender. The Council as the contracting authority is issuing this request for information only, in order to assess the reaction of the market and thus make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient.