Young People's Supported Accommodation

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The City of Wolverhampton is committed to supporting and stimulating a diverse market, especially local organisations in Wolverhampton, for care and support by offering a real choice of opportunities that keep children and young people safe and improve their life chances, whilst enabling effective early help and support to vulnerable families at the earliest point to strengthen families where children are at risk, and also support children and young people who are care experienced.

With all of the economic pressures experienced across service, new ways need to be found so that the whole system can respond pro-actively to the needs of children, young people, their family and community and to facilitate and enable resilience, growth and achievement.

The target population for this supported accommodation service includes young people aged 18 to 21 who are in care, care leavers, and who have care experience or at the edge of care.

This contract is to provide tenancy-readiness support for 14 young people aged 18-21.

The provider will have to provide 14 self-contained units of accommodation.

The initial term will be for 2 (Two) years, with the option for 2(two) 1(one) year extensions.

The contract will be based on minimum acceptable performance (map) being met by the tenderer as identified via key performance indicators.

The total contract term will not exceed 4 (four) years.

The Contract is intending to commence on 1st August 2026 or as otherwise agreed between the parties.