--- title: "Pin Notice:Children and Young People's Support Service" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY" published: "2022-10-04" --- # Pin Notice:Children and Young People's Support Service Buyer: LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-109d02b4-5258-4616-8610-315518fca543.json) ## Summary The London Borough of Hackney is in the planning stage of a procurement process for the "Pin Notice: Children and Young People's Support Service" within the industry category of Social work and related services. The procurement is initiated as a tender and involves soft market testing to develop a framework for support services for vulnerable children and young people. The engagement end date is set for October 12, 2022. This tender by the London Borough of Hackney presents an opportunity for businesses experienced in delivering support services for vulnerable children and young people to participate. The procurement is aimed at providers who can offer flexible, timely, and high-quality support services tailored to individual needs. Companies with expertise in areas such as mental health support, mentoring, and care services are encouraged to engage with the Borough to enhance outcomes for young people in need. ## Notice SOFT MARKET TESTING: Children and Young People's Support Service The London Borough of Hackney is currently exploring the possibility of developing a framework to deliver a range of support services for children and young people who are looked after or children in need. Prior to any formal market engagement event we invite prospective providers to participate in a soft market test to enhance our knowledge of the current market and what it is able to offer. This will inform the market engagement event and eventually the specification for the service delivery. Currently there are 400 looked after young people in Hackney. This number is on the rise and we find ourselves providing more and more of our children with additional support to meet their needs and provide them with some stability either in their care arrangements or while they are placed with family. We find this achieves some great outcomes for our young people and have seen the benefits of having children matched with engaging support workers. Support Services Currently, we use different providers to offer a range of support services to our young people. This is in a variety of different forms. We often rely on support workers to provide; an escort to and from an education provision, or contact. To be stationed in the child's home to offer the carer support and respite, taking children out for activities and mentoring, also helping with any additional care a child may need. We are also seeing an increase in the number of children who need this support that have additional needs such as Autism, young people struggling with their mental health and those needing support to engage in positive activities to increase their confidence. We are seeking companies which have experience of successfully delivering any of the above services for vulnerable children and young people, who may also be looked after. The principles to which any new service must adhere is that support will be: flexible, timely and appropriate and will be delivered as and when required; this includes same day support requests and potentially out of hours delivered in partnership so that people can access mainstream services and their local community easily; focussed on keeping young people safe, so that they can maintain good health and wellbeing; tailored to meet individual needs and provide a clear pathway to enable people to be as independent as possible; of good quality and will cater for temporary, short-term and long-term needs; sustainable, affordable and will deliver good value for money. Experienced, child focussed support workers with a range of skills to suit the needs of our young people. Support workers that reflect the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the children and young people in Hackney. Focus on keeping young people engaged with key services. Provide timely, accurate and good quality reports to social workers. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to th ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e6a5a104-3e88-4df2-9cc9-16a55f7b1dba | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 4 Oct 2022 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 12 Oct 2022 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY | | Locality | HACKNEY | | Post town | East London | | Postcode | E8 1DY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham | | Local authority | Hackney | | Electoral ward | Hackney Central | | Westminster constituency | Hackney South and Shoreditch | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85300000 - Social work and related services ## Release History - 4 Oct 2022 at 05:20 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e6a5a104-3e88-4df2-9cc9-16a55f7b1dba - 4 Oct 2022 at 05:18 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f68a4c42-89c4-474a-93d6-ac6bddd292c9 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e6a5a104-3e88-4df2-9cc9-16a55f7b1dba 4th October 2022 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f68a4c42-89c4-474a-93d6-ac6bddd292c9 4th October 2022 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - http://www.hackney.gov.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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