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Asylum-Seeking Children - Responsible Adult and Appropriate Adult Service

Home Office

This public procurement record has 5 releases in its history.

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14 Aug 2026 at 16:49

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
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14 Aug 2026 at 15:35

UK7 - Contract Details Notice
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17 Jul 2026 at 11:58

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
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27 Oct 2025 at 20:25

UK4 - Tender Notice
Tender

27 Oct 2025 at 20:24

UK4 - Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Home Office procured responsible adult and appropriate adult services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The service provides adults to accompany children during key interactions with the Home Office, helping young people feel safe, understood and able to participate meaningfully. Delivery is across the United Kingdom and involves working alongside the Home Office, other relevant services and suppliers to support arrangements for managing and supporting unaccompanied children. This is a public-sector social care and welfare services requirement, covering social work services without accommodation and welfare services for children and young people. The Home Office is the central government buyer. The requirement is classified primarily as services and is subject to the light-touch regime.

The procurement is complete: the contract was awarded to NINI SOCIAL CARE SERVICES CIC on 9 July 2026, signed on 31 July 2026 and is active. The awarded and contracted value is £392,953.78 excluding VAT (£471,544.54 including VAT). The contract runs from 31 July 2026 to 31 July 2028, with an optional extension of up to 12 months, potentially ending on 30 July 2029. It was a single-lot open procedure, with submissions due by 28 November 2025 and enquiries by 14 November 2025. Five final-stage bids were received. Evaluation weighted quality, including social value, at 60% and price, including implementation, at 40%. The award followed a competitive procurement process.

This award indicates demand for specialist safeguarding and social care provision for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, delivered through responsible and appropriate adults during sensitive interactions with central government. Credible future competitors will need the people, procedures and organisational resilience to make children feel safe, understood and able to participate meaningfully, while coordinating effectively with the Home Office and other services and suppliers. Experience of children’s welfare, social work without accommodation, safeguarding and support for vulnerable young people would be directly relevant. The requirement was identified as suitable for SMEs and voluntary, community and social enterprises, and the competition attracted five final-stage bids, including one from a VCSE. Suppliers should therefore be able to evidence service quality, social value, implementation capability and reliable delivery at national scale.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Asylum-Seeking Children - Responsible Adult and Appropriate Adult Service

Notice Description

The Home Office intends to enter into a contract for the provision of Responsible Adult and Appropriate Adult services to NINI SOCIAL CARE SERVICES CIC - Company number 07449057. The contract covers the provision of Responsible Adults and Appropriate Adults to accompany unaccompanied asylum-seeking children during key interactions with the Home Office within ensuring that young people feel safe, understood and able to participate meaningfully. The service will operate alongside, and in collaboration with, the Home Office and other relevant services and suppliers to support the effective operation of arrangements for managing and supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The contract was awarded following a competitive procurement process conducted through the Home Office Jaggaer eSourcing portal.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Renewal: An optional 12 month extension to the contract is available.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d4ac
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/077847-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85310000 - Social work services

85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people

85312000 - Social work services without accommodation

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£392,953 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
£392,953 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
14 Aug 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
28 Nov 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
9 Jul 20261 months ago
Contract Period
31 Jul 2026 - 31 Jul 2028 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Home Office
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW1P 4DF
Postcode Area
South West London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI35 Westminster and City of London
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Westminster
Electoral Ward
St James's
Westminster Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

NINI SOCIAL CARE SERVICES CIC

Further Information

Notice Documents

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