Method Statements for Learning Disability Bids: How to Strengthen Your Tender Responses


Method statements for learning disability tenders are one of the easiest ways to demonstrate clarity, compliance, and service quality. Commissioners want structured, practical answers that show exactly how your service supports people with learning disabilities.


Why Method Statements Matter

Unlike generic policies, method statements describe how your team works in practice, aligned to regulatory expectations and commissioning priorities. They turn β€œwhat we do” into β€œhow we do it, consistently and safely” β€” in a format assessors can score quickly.


What a Good Method Statement Includes

  • Purpose: Why the process exists and how it supports outcomes for people with learning disabilities.
  • Process: Step-by-step detail of how you deliver safe, consistent, person-centred care.
  • Outcomes: How this method supports CQC compliance, improves quality, and aligns to commissioner priorities.
  • Evidence: How you monitor, review, and improve this area of practice over time.

When writing bids, a specialist writer can help translate these elements into scorable answers. If you need hands-on support, our Learning Disability bid writer service can structure responses to match the marking scheme.


How Method Statements Strengthen Your Tenders

  • Consistency: A repeatable structure for answering similar questions across tenders.
  • Clarity: Shows exactly how you deliver safeguarding, recruitment, quality, and outcomes.
  • Compliance: Makes CQC alignment and commissioner expectations explicit.
  • Efficiency: Saves time while maintaining quality across future bids.

For learning disability services, method statements are especially valuable for evidencing person-centred planning, workforce stability, safeguarding, capacity & consent, and Positive Behaviour Support. For deeper PBS content and scoring tips, see PBS in Learning Disability Tenders β€” Going Beyond the Basics.


Examples That Score Well

1) Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)

Purpose, functional assessment, proactive strategies, restrictive-practice reduction, review cycles β€” plus outcome measures (e.g., reduced incidents, increased engagement).

2) Safeguarding & MSP

Routes to raise concerns, thresholds, decision-making, Making Safeguarding Personal (voice/choice/control), learning loops, and audit.

3) Workforce Continuity

Demand forecasting, rostering logic, escalation/on-call, rapid backfill, buddying/shadowing, supervision β€” evidenced with reliability KPIs.

4) Capacity, Consent & Best Interests

Assessment steps, recording, involvement of families/advocates, least-restrictive options, review points, and staff training.


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Updated for Procurement Act 2023 β€’ CQC-aligned β€’ BASE-aligned (where relevant)


Written by Impact Guru, editorial oversight by Mike Harrison, Founder of Impact Guru Ltd β€” bringing extensive experience in health and social care tenders, commissioning and strategy.

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