Published date: 7 December 2022

Last edited date: 9 December 2022

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: 9 December 2022, 11:30am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Adult and other education services - 80400000

  • Training services - 80500000

  • Health services - 85100000

    • Social work and related services - 85300000

    • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£2,000

Procurement reference

CORNWALL001-DN646676-34493583

Published date

7 December 2022

Closing date

9 December 2022

Closing time

11:30am

Contract start date

1 February 2023

Contract end date

1 February 2024

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The CIOS SAB is inviting tenders from experienced SAR authors who can evidence their knowledge expertise/experience in the following areas - Autism/housing, effective diagnosis of complex health conditions and experience of supporting families through the SAR process.

The Independent Author will be expected to undertake the following:

Review and analyse:
evidence collected in the course of the review, including the scoping returns from agencies, coroners' findings and other information available.
chronologies and Individual Management Reviews (unless an alternate method agreed)
Identify any additional information that will be required for this review.
Liaise with the family, frontline staff, managers and commissioners as required
Attend and chair meetings with the SAR Panel (if model to be used) and any other relevant meetings (the majority of this work will be conducted virtually using MS Teams).
Produce a succinct written report suitable for publication, which provides:
An Executive Summary
An Overview Report
A Learning Summary and/or learning event
Answers to the specific questions set in the Terms of Reference, which are to be developed by the author/chair in consultation as appropriate.
Identification of lessons to be learnt, gaps in the current system, and any good practice
SMART recommendations
Develop an action plan based on the SAR report
To present the report to the Safeguarding Adults Board or a subgroup of the SAB
To undertake any other tasks that the SAR and Learning subgroup identifies during this SAR process.

The purpose of employing an independent author is to ensure that Reviews are:

Independent, unbiased and objective
Open and Transparent, act in the public interest
Sensitive to the experience of all involved
Thoroughness and Meticulous
Challenging and positioned to deliver change, where required.

The independent author will be expected to complete and comply with the Terms set out in the CIOS SAR author Service level agreement (SLA) specification.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) Request

  • Opportunity
  • Published 7 December 2022

About the buyer

Contact name

Kerrie Edwards

Address

County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
United Kingdom

Email

kerrie.edwards@cornwall.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk