Decision details

Community Learning offer courses for learners with complex needs and barriers to further education and employment. One of the most common barriers to further learning is access to affordable or free childcare for pre-school children. Therefore a high proportion or our courses are run with a free crèche alongside. This Mobile Crèche Service is being introduced in the face of increasing costs and learner demand to ensure a consistent approach across all of our provision and improved control of the financial and operational risks associated with our high expenditure

Community Learning Bristol is part of Bristol City Council, one of our unique selling points is that we provide free, accessible childcare provision for parents and carers who want to improve their knowledge and skills. To ensure childcare is accessible we use mobile crèche services linked directly to a course; it runs at the same time and in the same location as the course.
The council has run a compliant open tender process to establish a multi-supplier framework for the provision of a mobile crèche service. The intention is to award a place on the framework to the two successful tenderers. The period of the framework is for 3 years with the option to extend for a further year.

There are no other contracts in place which meet the needs described above.