Heat-health alert for East of England

A red heat-health warning has been issued by the UKHSA. The warning is in effect from the morning of 24 June 2026 through to the night of 25 Jun 2026. Please ensure you keep up to date with weather reports reports and plan accordingly.

UKHSA weather warning guidance

The Supreme Court's judgment on deprivation of liberty

You may be aware that the Supreme Court has recently issued a judgment which significantly changes the legal approach to determining whether a person is deprived of their liberty. The judgement can be seen here A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 o….

We would encourage you to familiarise yourselves with the judgment and carefully consider the implications for your services and practice. Please see the following links for further information: CQC statement on the Supreme Court's judgment on deprivation of liberty - Care Quality Commission and 2026-UKSC-16-Summary-for-website.pdf.

We ask that you refer to this updated position when making any new referrals to the DoLS team.  In addition, as the change came into effect immediately from 2 June, please review any recent DoLS referrals you have made. You should consider whether, in light of this revised approach, any of these referrals may no longer be appropriate.

We hope this offers reassurance whilst we wait for additional National guidance to be disseminated.  At this stage we don’t have further information, but if you have a specific query, you can contact the MCA DoLS Duty Team at Dolforms@essex.gov.uk

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Procurement Team

The Procurement Team are here to work with commissioners and operational colleagues to ensure that compliant tenders are issued in line with our legislative requirements.

We are here to support providers in understanding the tender process to ensure that we have a active market in Essex to support our children and young people. We also take on the responsibility of managing our contracts and frameworks and working with providers to support them from a commercial function.

We also work on understanding our markets to ensure that we are flexible and able to respond to any changes that may come our way. We use our market knowledge to work with commissioning to help plan for the future of Children’s and Young People services.

Our team:

Anna Porter - Procurement Specialist

Anne-Lise Nicol - Procurement Manager Children's Residential Services

Clare Perrett - Procurement Assistant Manager SIA (Semi-Independent Accommodation) Services

Craig Forster - Procurement Officer 

Please contact us at: contractsc&f@essex.gov.uk

Last updated: 02/02/2024
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