Notice Information
Notice Title
0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services
Notice Description
Essex (ECC), Thurrock and Suffolk (SCC) County Council are seeking to secure a range of good quality providers to deliver support services to adoptive and SGO families. This is to meet statutory duties to provide adoption and SGO support services. The overarching aims of creating a framework are: *to promote sufficiency and capacity of quality services across Essex, Thurrock and Suffolk local *to improve the stability, resilience and wellbeing of adoptive and SGO families and meet their therapeutic needs * to have a compliant mechanism to purchase a variety of specialist therapeutic services * To use funding available for these services including the Adoption Support Fund as effectively and efficiently as possible
Lot Information
Training
Training is expected to cover a wide range of skills and approaches as identified within a family individual plan and the most common types of training required are listed below. All training offered should: be delivered by suitably qualified trainers with subject specialism; be clearly focused on meeting the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families; be planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team; feedback from all course attendees should be sought for each course and given to each LA. This lot includes the following types of training but is not limited to: 1.1. Non Violent Resistance 1.2. Attachment 1.3. Matching 1.4. Transitions 1.5. Theraplay 1.6. Communicating and connecting 1.7. Life story 1.8. Contact 1.9. Friends and family 1.10. PACE 1.11. Therapeutic parenting 1.12 Safer Stronger Adoptive Families 1.13 Secure Base /Safebase parenting program 1.14 The Great Behaviour Breakdown Program 1.15 Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Families (TCIF)
Renewal: Candidates are advised that this framework will incorporate a refresh mechanism to enable new entrants to apply to join the framework.
Therapeutic IntervenionTherapeutic intervention will be wide ranging in order to meet individual needs but should be evidence based and in line with therapies listed under the ASF. They must be tailored to meet the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team. This lot includes the following types of therapeutic intervention but is not limited to: 2.1 Art therapy 2.2 Dance movement therapy 2.3 Yoga 2.4 Music therapy 2.5 Play therapy 2.6 Group-based art or play therapy 2.7 Filial therapy 2.8 Lego Therapy 2.9 Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) 2.10 Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) 2.11 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) 2.12 Internal Families System Therapy 2.13 Reducing anxiety management plan (RAMP) 2.14 Sensory Integration Processing Therapy or therapeutic listining Programme 2.15 Cognitive Therapy 2.16 Education Psychotherapy 2.17 Group Based Art or Play Therapy 2.18 Attachment Therapy 2.19 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) 2.20 Child to Parent Violence (CPV) Individual Based Programme 2.21 Multi-systemic family therapy 2.22 Systemic family therapy 2.23 Psychodynamic therapy 2.24 Theraplay 2.25 Koru Project 2.26 Therapeutic life story work for the child 2.27 Individual psychological therapy 2.28 Drama Therapy 2.29 Neuro-integration system therapy (NIS)Psychoanalytical therapy 2.30 Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (VIPP-SD)
Renewal: Candidates are advised that this framework will incorporate a refresh mechanism to enable new entrants to apply to join the framework.
Specialist AssessmentsFollowing a social work assessment of support needs, there are occasions when a specialist assessment is indicated. Providers will deliver robust clinical assessment of children and young people's developmental trauma and attachment. All assessments provided should be delivered by suitably qualified trainers and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team. The assessments that this service will provide include, but are not limited to, the following: 3.1. Comprehensive systemic family assessments 3.2. Psychological & psychiatric assessments 3.3. Assessments of therapeutic needs 3.4. Assessments of contact needs 3.5. Sensory integration/occupational therapy assessments 3.6. Multi-disciplinary assessments
Renewal: Candidates are advised that this framework will incorporate a refresh mechanism to enable new entrants to apply to join the framework.
Short breaksShort breaks commissioned will include therapeutic breaks for the whole family or child only to provide structured and supported time with the access to therapeutic services and an opportunity to develop peer relationships with other adoptive and SGO families. Providers of breaks with be expected to work with the Local Authority to provide a service that will meet the needs of the families referred. 4.1 Therapeutic Short Breaks
Renewal: Candidates are advised that this framework will incorporate a refresh mechanism to enable new entrants to apply to join the framework.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0290bc
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002389-2021
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,968,920 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 5 Feb 20215 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 26 Mar 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Jeanette Smith
- Contact Email
- catherine.biedul@suffolk.gov.uk, jeanette.smith@essex.gov.uk, pmccullough@thurrock.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 3330321157
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CHELMSFORD
- Postcode
- CM1 1QH
- Post Town
- Chelmsford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH3 Essex
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH32 Thurrock
- Delivery Location
- TLH3 Essex
-
- Local Authority
- Thurrock
- Electoral Ward
- Grays Riverside
- Westminster Constituency
- Thurrock
Further Information
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