--- title: "Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and extra-familial threats response" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION" published: "2018-08-28" --- # Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and extra-familial threats response Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-bbf13d88-110c-4181-be73-3fe4a81d2a5a.json) ## Summary The procurement process titled "Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and extra-familial threats response" is initiated by the Department for Education, focusing on the welfare services for children and young people across various regions in the United Kingdom. Currently in the planning stage, the engagement for potential bidders is set to conclude on 30th September 2018, with a pre-market engagement event scheduled for 21st September 2018 at the Department's London office. This tender seeks to develop a service that can respond effectively to the evolving risks faced by young people, particularly around CSE and related threats, and aims to enhance the capability of local authorities to manage these challenges over a proposed contract period of three years, contingent on funding availability. This tender presents significant opportunities for organisations specialising in child safeguarding, social services, and related fields, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs). Businesses with expertise in delivering training, support, and safeguarding solutions tailored to local contexts will find themselves well-positioned to compete for this contract. Engaging in this process not only offers a chance to contribute to essential public services but can also foster meaningful growth for companies operating within the welfare and education sectors, highlighting the importance of building local capacity to protect vulnerable young people. ## Notice In recent years, many local authorities have made a lot of progress in knowing how to respond to CSE but it is a complex area of safeguarding practice and remains a risk to young people as the threat has evolved. Alongside CSE there are other wide-ranging and evolving extra-familial threats facing this group which include (but are not limited to) county lines, gangs, trafficking and modern slavery of children, all of which contribute to incidents of children missing from home and care. Very often children experience CSE and these other harms simultaneously. The challenge for local areas in addressing these multiple threats is building practitioners' expertise and in developing an appropriate multi-agency safeguarding response. We would like to fund a service to provide advice and support to professionals in local areas, building their capacity and capability to: a) respond effectively to safeguarding challenges from particular issues and/or handling high harm cases involving CSE and other extra-familial threats b) better analyse the effectiveness of their interventions to continuously improve their practice based on evidence of what works locally. Additional information: CSE and connected extra-familial threats are not confined to any one local area or region. The support that is required in local areas to meet a range of risks and needs will depend on the local context. The work will contribute towards: improving capability in public services at a local level to tackle multiple risks to young people; and providing targeted advice and bespoke, specialist, short-term support for local areas. Any potential competition may commence in September 2018 and be for a three-year contract, subject to availability of funding. In line with procurement best practice, we plan to run a pre-market engagement event to help us shape requirements in terms of building local capacity, support professionals and take action to address a range of threats facing young people together. We wish to test market views on the needs of professionals in local areas and how best to facilitate the spread of good practice in responding to multiple risks. The Department wishes to assess market capability and capacity to administer and deliver a response, as described, to help local areas tackle adolescent vulnerabilities and explore market interest in tendering for this service. There will be a pre-market engagement event on Friday 21 September from 10.30 - 12.30pm at the Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BT. Please register an interest in attending, max two per organisation, to email: marcus.dean@education.gov.uk by Monday 17 September. This notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services for the Authority. The procurement of any services will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The purpose of this PIN is to stimulate early market interest and invite interested parties to take part in preliminary market consultations, in order to improve our knowledge of the market. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a28e10b3-eb05-47a1-aff6-ae824dff60b0 | | 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 | 28 Aug 2018 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 30 Sep 2018 | | 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 | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1P 3BT | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West | | ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London | | Local authority | Westminster | | Electoral ward | St James's | | Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster | | Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people ## Release History - 28 Aug 2018 at 12:03 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a28e10b3-eb05-47a1-aff6-ae824dff60b0 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a28e10b3-eb05-47a1-aff6-ae824dff60b0 28th August 2018 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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