Emergency & Homelessness Prevention Service for Young People

Descriptions

City of Wolverhampton Council is committed to preventing homelessness by working in partnership with public, private and voluntary, community and social enterprise partners. City of Wolverhampton Council’s Our City: Our Plan emphasises the Council’s commitment to providing high quality support services to prevent and relieve homelessness of young people aged 16-17. The service provided under this contract will align the different elements that are commissioned to accommodate and support young people aged 16 to 17 who are homeless, within the statutory service. This will provide a more streamlined pathway for service users and will allow support to be increased or decreased for an individual in response to changing needs, ensuring the best possible outcome. This will also increase added value by aligning different supported accommodation commissioned and/or provided by the Council in this way. The contract will be for five years from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2029 with an option to extend for a further 2 years on a year-by-year basis at the sole discretion of the council.