What the buyer wrote
The number of Cumbria children requiring adoption has been high over the last five years, alongside a local and national decrease in the numbers of approved adopters. This has resulted in a shortfall in the number of local authority adoption placements available to meet demand. The council has therefore purchased an increasing number of placements from Voluntary Adoption Agencies. The provision of a Cumbria Adoption Services Placement and Support Contract delivered by an Adoption Agency shall ensure that effective, efficient and timely adoption placements are made for more Cumbria children. The service shall recruit and support adopters, working with the Council to match referred childre…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Adoption Services: Recruitment and Placement
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Aug 2019
- Work ends
- 31 Aug 2020
- Kind of work
- Health and social care
Who the buyer named
Alan Young was the named contact on this notice.