Tender: Domiciliary Personal Care for Disabled Children – Hackney & North East London (Lot 4)

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The Children and Families service in the London Borough of Hackney is seeking suppliers from the voluntary, community and independent sectors to join its Disabled Children’s Services Framework for Lot 4: domiciliary care. Providers must be registered with the CQC to provide domiciliary care to children under 18 and will deliver personal care in children’s own homes, including assisting with dressing/undressing, getting up and returning to bed, transfers using a mechanical hoist or assisted movement techniques, assisting with feeding (including PEG feeding), bathing and washing (including shaving, hair, skin, denture and mouth care, fingernail and foot care but not cutting toenails), toileting (including emptying and changing catheter and colostomy bags), continence support and menstrual care. Support may be ongoing long term or short-term time-limited for emergencies or changes in circumstance. Providers must work with the Local Authority to embed Systemic, Trauma Informed and Anti Racist Practice, and the framework will be supported by contract management, performance monitoring and reporting to meet statutory duties under the Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2014 and Equality Act 2010. Providers must confirm ability to deliver services within the London Borough of Hackney and across North East London (Haringey, Islington, Camden, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, City of London), and must hold safeguarding and equality, diversity and inclusion policies that were written, reviewed or updated in the last two years and specifically reference disabled children. More details are in the tender documents (ref DN804290). The closing date for submission is Monday 2nd November 2026 at 12 noon.