Council invites tenders for £1.28m in legal services for adults and children social care

The council said the legal service would need to include these key elements for children's services:

• Advice and guidance on legal cases within children's services;
• Representations in court a required;
• Good working relationships with chambers to enable a responsive partnership style relationship;
• Weekly legal workshops for children's care management staff to be held at the Town Hall;
• Representation for fostering and adoption case;
• Support staff with legal queries and nuances of law that take place;
• Advice on complaints in relation to children's services;
• Advice and representation in relation to judicial review.

For adult social care services, the service would need to cover the following key elements:

• Advice and representation for adult social care;
• Advice and representation in relation to judicial review;
• Advice on complaints in relation to adult social care;
• Legal training for staff in relation to adult social care;
• Advice on complaints and responding to data information requests where appropriate.

The contract is for three years with an option for extend for a further 12 months. It has an estimated value excluding VAT of £1.28m.