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Alternative Residential Children’s Care Services in Flintshire.
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This notice at this stage is to purely gather market intelligence for the requirement detailed below. There is no guarantee that any competitive exercise will follow this request.Flintshire County Council’s Children’s Service is committed to safely reducing the number of looked after children who are currently placed out-of-area and wishes to look in detail at the way in which the local authority can work directly with an independent sector provider to establish new provision of care within Flintshire.Flintshire is entering into a partnership arrangement with a local housing provider (RSL) has secured the provision of two four bedroomed detached houses within the Authority.The model being developed does not address the specific needs of children with disabilities, however the children placed in the service are likely to have been exposed to a range of negative experiences, the trauma of these experiences may be expressed in a variety of ways; commonly children may be developmentally delayed or they may exhibit undesired behaviours that express their feelings and confusion.Flintshire wishes to expanding local residential care in partnership with the Independent sector and the housing provider and as such is keen investigate the feasibility of establishing a new, local authority commissioned independent sector -run children’s home provision. This approach may increase the control that the local authority had over the nature and quality of provision and link it in with other agencies and programmes of support. The new RISCA legislation provides potential opportunities for new service models but the detail needs to be fully explored and understood.To meet these aims, there are a number of service objectives. These are:1) To meet each child’s needs by working with them to identify and achieve a range of personal goals, as recorded in the child’s Care and Support Plan.2) To respect confidentiality and promote trusting professional relationships with children in doing so, to help children to participate in the planning and the development of their own support.3) To help reduce the need for admissions to higher levels of care and to promote opportunities for safe step down from care settings by supporting the children to develop positive skills and self-confidence.4) To work in partnership with all stakeholders involved in children’s services, in order to support children with complex problems via positive risk taking.5) To promote equal opportunities for children with complex problems to overcome discrimination and exclusion from society.
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85310000 - Social work services
85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people
85300000 - Social work and related services
85144100 - Residential nursing care services
Keywords
nursing home care
in-facility nursing
24‑hour nursing support
professional nursing residence
residential clinical care
skilled nursing services
inpatient nursing supervision
elderly nursing care
chronic disease nursing
residential nurse staffing
social support services
community welfare
social outreach
case management
social integration
community care programs
support services delivery
social assistance
client advocacy
psychosocial support
individual social work
family support services
community counselling
social casework
social assistance programs
social rehabilitation
welfare assistance
support for families
social care coordination
crisis intervention
youth welfare services
child protection support
juvenile counselling
foster care services
children’s residential care
youth mentoring
young persons advice
child advocacy
family support youth
youth social integration
community support services
social welfare provision
personal care services
public engagement programs
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