Direct Award for Temporary Specialist Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Workers

A Addendum Notice
by TORBAY COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
not specified
Value
___
Sector
BUSINESS
Published
26 May 2023
Delivery
not specified
Deadline
n/a

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Description

Torbay Council is currently unable to meet the current demand for requests for new Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) assessments and annual reviews with the capacity available. There is a national increase in Request for Statutory Assessment (RSA) requests. The temporary appointment of specialist SEND workers for 12 months would clear the backlog and then accurately assess demand vs capacity. Legally, the Council should be making the decision to amend the EHCP within 2 weeks of receiving the Annual Review paperwork and sending out the Amended plan with that decision. The Council has advertised to its contracted Standing List of temporary agency providers, on numerous occasions, with no response. Therefore, the Council wishes to source the four required specialist education/SEND staff directly, via an agency provider, not on the Council’s Standing List. There is an urgency to sourcing these staff due to the services’ task being statutory, and therefore there is no time available to conduct an appropriate procurement process for these temporary appointments.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

2. II.1.1

Procurement of temporary specialist Direct Award for Temporary Specialist Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) workers Workers

3. II.1.4

The purpose temporary appointment of the project specialist SEND workers for 12 months would be to clear the backlog (149 EHCP amendments significantly overdue) and then accurately assess demand vs capacity. Legally, the Council should be making the decision to amend the EHCP within 2 weeks of receiving the Annual Review paperwork and sending out the Amended plan with that decision. This was evidence in case law in 2022. Therefore, the Council needs to appoint temporary specialist SEND Workers to undertake this work during the next 12 months.

4. IV.1.1

New works/services, constituting The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a repetition particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of existing works/services competition for technical reasons

CPV Codes

  • 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

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