Supported Accommodation

Supported Accommodation

Supported accommodation for young people aged 16-25, including care leavers and young people at risk of homelessness, is one of the most outcomes-focused commissioning environments in children's services. Local authority commissioners and combined authority housing teams procuring supported accommodation contracts are evaluating responses on the evidence of your key worker model, your approach to independent living skills, and the move-on outcomes you deliver — not your generic statements about young person-centred support.

Evaluation criteria for supported accommodation commissioning focus on your key worker allocation and relationship model, your pathway planning methodology, your approach to building independent living skills, your outcomes data showing successful move-on to independent accommodation, your multi-agency working with housing, employment, and health services, and your specific capability with young people who have care experience or complex needs backgrounds.

TenderLab's approach to supported accommodation tendering centres on evidencing your key worker model and your outcomes data. We work with your service team to identify the specific evidence — the pathway planning tools, the move-on percentages, the multi-agency working arrangements — that commissioners score most highly, and structure your response to present that evidence in the format that maximises marks at each evaluation section.