Contract award · 1 Sep 2025

CN250157 - Speech, Language and Communication Needs - Delivering Inclusion within the Curriculum for Education (DICE) Service

Kent County Council awarded “Speech, Language and Communication Needs - Delivering Inclusion…” to Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust for £13m.

Health & social careSouth East

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Key facts

Buyer
Kent County Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£13,020,000
Procedure
Open procedure
Sector
Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date1 Sep 2025
  2. Published3 Sep 2025Published 2 days after the contract date

Description

Speech, Language and Communication Needs - Delivering Inclusion within the Curriculum for Education (DICE) Service : Tender Notice Kent County Council is seeking to commission a Speech, Language and Communication Needs - Delivering Inclusion within the Curriculum for Education (DICE) Service, that supports children and young people in mainstream schools and across community settings, such as Family Hubs, during both term time and school holiday periods. The service will hold a key role in supporting those children and young people who are either in mainstream schools and those who for various reasons are not attending school regularly (e.g. such as those home educated, non/low-school attendance, living in Refuges, etc) and have Speech and Language needs. This will be referred to as place-based settings. This service will initially sit alongside the wider Community Services provided by the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) with an ambition for the services to be seamless …

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