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SAFE Birmingham Taskforce Track 2 Interventions (Mentoring)

Birmingham City Council

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16 Jul 2026 at 15:19

UK7 - Contract Details Notice
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15 Oct 2025 at 11:49

UK5 - Transparency Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Birmingham City Council commissioned mentoring services under the SAFE Birmingham Taskforce’s Track 2 interventions. The programme is a schools-led response to serious youth violence, providing early intervention in mainstream secondary schools. Services cover 36 secondary schools and at least 620 referrals. Each referral is intended to receive weekly mentoring during term time for at least six months, alongside complementary after-school and school-holiday activity. The intended results are improved behaviour, socio-emotional regulation and wellbeing, better or stabilised attendance, and reduced vulnerability to or involvement in serious violence. Delivery is in Birmingham, for secondary-school pupils and the participating schools. The procurement is for children’s and young people’s welfare services, with CPV code 85311300.

The procurement is complete and was awarded through a single lot by direct award. The council used a light-touch regime and justified the route as an extension or partial replacement of existing services: changing supplier was considered likely to create incompatible delivery and disproportionate training, stakeholder-management and mobilisation requirements. Contracts were signed on 2 January 2026, with contract periods ending on 31 August 2026. Awards were made to Aston Villa Foundation (£153,022 gross), Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network (£109,586), Every Child Needs a Mentor (£82,515), Evolve: A Social Impact Company Limited (£238,800), First Class Foundation (£82,515), Mentoring Arts and Diverse Educators CIC (£65,308), Recrea8 Now (£91,485), Birmingham Sport and Physical Activity Trust (£109,586), Urban Devotion Birmingham (£91,539), and Vision for All CIC (£91,539). A further award to Vision for All CIC is recorded at £0.01 gross.

This requirement indicates demand for organisations able to provide structured mentoring to secondary-school pupils affected by attendance, behaviour, wellbeing or serious-violence risks. Credible competitors would need practical capacity to support referrals across schools, deliver weekly term-time sessions over a sustained period, and provide complementary after-school and holiday activity. The stated delivery model also favours organisations that can work consistently with school values, staff structures, policies, procedures and systems, because the council regarded continuity and established mobilisation as important. The awarded supplier group shows that the work can be delivered by small and medium-sized organisations and voluntary, community or social enterprises, including mentoring, youth, sport, physical-activity and social-impact providers. Evidence of effective school engagement, adaptable delivery methods and measurable improvements in attendance, behaviour and wellbeing would therefore strengthen a future proposition.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

SAFE Birmingham Taskforce Track 2 Interventions (Mentoring)

Notice Description

Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed (SAFE) is a schools-led response to serious youth violence, focused on providing earlier intervention in mainstream secondary schools. It is aligned with the expectations placed upon Schools, Academy trusts, governing bodies, and local authorities by the Working Together to Improve School Attendance guidance. The aims of the SAFE programme are to: - Improve socio-emotional regulation and wellbeing - Improve behaviour within schools and the local area - Improve school attendance - Reduce vulnerability to, and involvement in, serious violence The expected outputs from the award of these contracts will be: - Mentoring services for 36 secondary schools with a minimum of 620 referrals - Weekly (term time) mentoring for a minimum of 6 months per referral (two terms) alongside complementary afterschool and school holiday activity. Expected outcomes from the Services are: - Improvements in behaviour of young people - Improvements in socio-emotional wellbeing - Improvements in / stabilisation of attendance

Procurement Information

This direct award is justified as a Special Case Under Schedule 5 Direct Awards of PA2023 under clause 7 in relation to Additional or repeat goods, services or works -5 The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier which are intended as an extension to, or partial replacement of, existing goods, services or works in circumstances where- (a) a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from, or incompatible with, the existing goods, services or works, and (b) the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance A change of supplier would result in services being different from those provided by the existing supplier. Suppliers were matched with schools in 2023 and have been onboarded with school values, staff structure, policies, procedures and systems and their delivery and methodology has been adapted overtime to deliver against them. A change in supplier would result in a requirement for extended supplier training, stakeholder management and mobilisation to end users, disproportionate to that needed to continue the service.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05cd28
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067357-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£832,255 £500K-£1M
Contracts Value
£554,398 £500K-£1M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
16 Jul 20261 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
15 Oct 202510 months ago
Contract Period
2 Jan 2026 - 31 Aug 2026 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Birmingham City Council
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
BIRMINGHAM
Postcode
B1 1BB
Postcode Area
Birmingham
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLG West Midlands (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLG3 West Midlands
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLG31 Birmingham
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Birmingham
Electoral Ward
Ladywood
Westminster Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
13
Supplier Names

Aston Villa Foundation

Birmingham Sport and Physical Activity Trust

Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network

Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network (BURN Consortium)

Every Child Needs a Mentor

Evolve: A Social Impact Company Limited

First Class Foundation

Mentoring Arts and Diverse Educators CIC

Mentoring and Diverse Educators CIC

RECRE8NOW

Recrea8 Now

Urban Devotion Birmingham

Vision for All CIC

Further Information

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