--- title: "Hackney Empowering Parent, Empowering Communities (EPEC) Service - Expression of Interest" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY" published: "2023-09-14" --- # Hackney Empowering Parent, Empowering Communities (EPEC) Service - Expression of Interest Buyer: LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6dbba77f-a7f4-4d13-8170-cc2fd4f7d503.json) ## Summary The London Borough of Hackney is planning a procurement process for the Hackney Empowering Parent, Empowering Communities (EPEC) Service. The service aims to establish and maintain a network of Parent Group Leaders providing parenting programmes. The estimated contract value is £119,000 with anticipated contract dates from November 2025 to March 2025, potentially extending to September 2025. The procurement stage is 'planned', and the industry category is 'Social work and related services'. The buying organization is the London Borough of Hackney, located in Hackney, United Kingdom. This tender presents an opportunity for businesses specializing in social work services to bid for establishing and managing the Hackney EPEC service. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are suitable to compete. The procurement method is 'tender', and the service delivery locations include postal code E8 1EA and various international locations. Businesses interested in providing parent support services and working collaboratively with local agencies and communities would be well-suited for this tender. ## Notice The London Borough of Hackney wishes to procure a suitably qualified provider to establish and maintain an Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) Hackney service. The service will recruit and provide accredited training to a network of Parent Group Leaders (volunteers) who will deliver 8 - week EPEC parenting programmes to families with children aged 2 yrs and under. EPEC is innovative. It uses a 'parent to parent' approach to transform the scale and reach of parenting support available to families and communities living in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods; and strengthens the parent-child relationship through positive communication, parental sensitivity, safe care, child-led play, alongside behaviour management tools grounded in social learning theory. It has been proven to reduce barriers associated with stigma for those parents/carers least likely to use conventional parenting services. The Hackney service will work collaboratively with maternity, health visiting services, the CVS, children centres and emerging family hubs to be part of a whole system approach to supporting families with the transition to parenthood. The successful bidder will: establish a Hackney EPEC service manage the recruitment and coordination of accredited training for local parent group leaders organise the programme of Hackney EPEC parenting courses conduct parent outreach and engagement provide supervision and quality assurance network and liaise with multi agency colleagues and services report EPEC activity and impact to multi agency partners South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust hold the intellectual property rights to EPEC and will support the organisation awarded the contract to successfully establish the local EPEC service within Hackney by: delivering the accredited EPEC training to Parent Peer Group Leaders and materials providing supervision - pre group, prep arrangements? supporting training delivery to parents - observation for one hour, sessions 1, 3, 5 and 8, supervision?, and undertaking phone check-ins providing opportunities to reflect and learn on own group leader skills, and any concerns about specific parents embedding safeguarding within the Parent Peer Group Leader training, local training, and group agreement It is anticipated that this service will cost PS119,000 (Yr. 1 PS82,897.50 Yr. 2 PS36,102.50). Estimated contract dates - Start date: 27th November 2025 End date: March 2025. Note: the contract will include a 6 month extension to September 2025 (subject to funding) bringing the cost to a maximum of PS163,000 To be notified when the opportunity is published please register your interest on the London Tender Portal - project reference DN689666 Note that this advert is Without Prejudice to any future procurement opportunities with LB Hackney. This is not a call for competition. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/037ff9ba-dff2-45a3-a4ff-bda6bae65696 | | Notice type | Planned Procurement 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 | 14 Sep 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 25 Sep 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 27 Nov 2023 - 31 Mar 2024 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £119,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | 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 - 14 Sep 2023 at 10:52 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/037ff9ba-dff2-45a3-a4ff-bda6bae65696 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/037ff9ba-dff2-45a3-a4ff-bda6bae65696 14th September 2023 - Future opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=fc49128a-e952-ee11-8124-005056b64545 Advert ## 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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