General Foster Care Services

The Children and Community Services Ministerial Body through the Department for Child Protection (the Department) is seeking responses from suitable Respondents to provide general foster care services for children and young people in the care of the CEO.

Consistent with the Delivering Community Services in Partnership Policy, July 2011, the Department intends to engage with the not-for-profit community sector, including Local Government Authorities, for the provision of this service.

General foster care services provide children and young people 0 to 17 years with accommodation, nurturing and support to meet their indiviual needs, including cultural and spiritual, in the homes of approved and registered foster families. General foster carers have met screening and selection criteria and attained minimum competencies.

The Department currently contracts six community sector organisations (Service Providers) for the provision of 263 general foster care placement services in the metropolitan area. The purpose of this Request is to increase this number by a further 21 general foster care placement provided by the community sector. In addition, the Department is seeking to expand the existing Service Provider pool by encouraging other suitable community sector organisations to respond to this Request.

A non-mandatory briefing/workshop to Respondents will be conducted on Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 1:30pm at the Department for Childre Protection, Seminar Rooms 3 & 4, 189 Royal Street, East Perth. Respondents are requested to confirm their attendance by no later than 4:00pm on Friday 23 March 2012 by contacting Ms Melissa Dobson on phone number [phone hidden] or by email [email hidden]