Published date: 25 March 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 29 March 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Welfare services for children and young people - 85311300

  • Social services - 85320000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

MEDWAY001-DN400243-73316655

Published date

25 March 2019

Closing date

29 March 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The children's vision impaired support, information and guidance service will provide assessment, rehabilitation, equipment provision, signposting and support to blind and vision impaired children and young people (CYP). It will focus on principles of promoting independence, maximising and sustaining choice, involvement and inclusion, and will deliver a person centred approach that facilitates opportunities for CYP who are blind or vision impaired to live meaningful fulfilled lives and to live independently at home

Rehabilitation for vision impaired people is a specific form of reablement; it constitutes an established form of early intervention, one of the four domains of personalisation. Rehabilitation, like reablement yields a dual benefit, in that it not only enables people to live independent lives outside of the care system, but in so doing can avoid the need for costly long-term care packages.

The service will cover the following areas:
• Provide mobility information and guidance support
• Provide rehabilitation interventions
• Provide training, advice and support for professionals working with sight impaired children and young people in Medway
• Provide training and advice for professionals

About the buyer

Contact name

Lisa Barrett

Address

Medway Council
Gun Wharf, Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR
England

Telephone

+44 1634337402

Email

lisa.barrett@medway.gov.uk

Website

http://www.medway.gov.uk/