Issue - meetings
Gateway 3 Contract Award: Advocacy for Parents with Children in or on the Edge of Care
Meeting: 02/06/2026 - Cabinet (Item 12)
12 Gateway 3 Contract Award: Advocacy for Parents with Children in or on the Edge of Care 
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Background:
Following the recent tender process for the Advocacy Service for Parents with Children in or on the Edge of Care, the report sought agreement to award the contract to the supplier named in Exempt Appendix 1 to the report.
A Diversity Impact Assessment had been undertaken and was attached at Appendix 1 to the report.
An Exempt Appendix to the report provided the financial analysis of the procurement exercise.
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Decision:
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88/2026 |
The Cabinet agreed to award the contract to the supplier, Libra Partnership, as named in 3.1 of the Exempt Appendix, as they had been evaluated as the most advantageous against the Council’s award criteria as per the evaluation spreadsheet contained within 2.1 of the Exempt Appendix 1 to the report. |
Reasons:
The preferred provider best met both the quality criteria and the price requirements, to deliver the service. The provider has effectively demonstrated their knowledge and experience of how advocacy can be used to support parents with children in or on the edge of care to better engage with services to enable them to safely keep their children in their care.