Temporary Accommodation

Temporary Accommodation

Temporary accommodation for young people and families in housing crisis sits at the intersection of children's services commissioning, housing procurement, and crisis intervention. Commissioners procuring temporary accommodation contracts are evaluating your ability to respond rapidly, manage complex presentations safely, and move individuals and families towards settled accommodation within defined timeframes. Generic statements about providing a safe and supportive environment do not score — operational specificity does.

Evaluation criteria for temporary accommodation contracts focus on your access and response time to emergency placements, your assessment and support planning methodology, your safeguarding infrastructure for crisis presentations, your multi-agency working with children's social care, housing, and voluntary sector partners, your staffing model for out-of-hours support, and your pathway planning approach and move-on outcome data.

TenderLab builds temporary accommodation responses around your operational model and your evidence of rapid response capacity. We identify your placement response times, your assessment tools, your safeguarding protocols, and your pathway outcomes data, and structure your submission to demonstrate both the safety of your crisis response and the effectiveness of your pathway planning in moving individuals towards settled outcomes.