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title: "2122-0032 Young Islington - universal youth work offer"
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# 2122-0032 Young Islington - universal youth work offer

Buyer: ISLINGTON COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02b78e

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## Summary

The procurement process is led by Islington Council, focusing on the "Young Islington – universal youth work offer" initiative aimed at enhancing youth support services in London. This tender, classified under health and social work services, is at the active planning stage with a tender deadline set for September 1, 2021. The initiative includes multiple lots, providing opportunities to collaborate with community youth providers and address local needs effectively. The procurement follows an open process, fostering a competitive environment for service providers.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses that specialise in youth work, social services, and community engagement. Entities with experience in providing innovative and relational youth support services, especially those focusing on emotional wellbeing and resilience-building, would be well-suited to participate. The procurement encourages collaboration amongst small to medium-sized enterprises, promoting a community-focused approach that can lead to impactful partnerships and business growth.

## Notice

Islington Council has a vision to mobilise the collective energy and resources of all partners across the borough to ensure all young people have equal access to opportunities and networks of support to help them enjoy their teenage years, thrive, be safe, enjoy good physical and mental health and realise their ambitions. To achieve this, Islington wants to make sure that all young people benefit from consistent and high-quality relationships with youth workers that support their social and emotional development. Those relationships support young people through the adolescent phase of their lives, and through exposing them to a range of experiences, opportunities and support, help them to develop resilience to cope with change and adversity and avoid negative pathways in future. The new Young Islington universal youth work offer has been developed which will be community focused, building sustainable networks across the borough with a shared and coherent vision linking into and building capacity amongst community youth providers and groups. The intention is that the new offer will draw in and convene a range of resources for the benefit of young people.

### Lot Information

Lot 1: Young Islington: Youth work leadership, quality and impact

* Act as a champion of high-quality youth work across the borough, be the 'voice' of the sector and of young people. * Develop cross-borough programmes of youth work, working closely with the providers of the other Lots, the locality networks, professionals in targeted and specialist services and other relevant stakeholders to identify gaps, address inequalities and reach into the communities that may not be engaged currently. * Provide a local focus of excellence for youth work, championing Islington at regional and national youth sector events and keying into regional and national support. * Lead on the workforce development agenda; identifying an appropriate cross-borough approach to consistently ensuring high quality youth work across the offer in the context of delivering relationally-based, trauma-informed youth work with an emphasis on 'earliest' help where needed. * Lead on capacity building for youth work in the borough, working with all partners in the new offer to develop cross-borough programmes and submit funding bids. * Ensure consistency in the quality of services and support (e.g. through mentoring, buddying and reflective practice) and support adherence to shared quality standards across the partnership. * Promote the voice of young people and the organisations that work with them. Advocate for young people's right to be visible and play a full role in the local community across a range of forums and to stakeholders including parents/carers, schools, funders and decision makers. * Signpost young people and families to the whole of the youth offer and into other services that could help to meet their needs (health, education, family support services, etc.), as well as wider relevant universal services. * Articulate and communicate the impact of quality youth work, amplify the stories and evidence of what has worked well as a result of the development of networks of organisations and communities working together

Lot 2: Young Islington: Lift and Rose Bowl, Summerversity and the Emotional Wellbeing Service

* Develop, deliver and host a high quality, innovative and interconnected programme of youth work activities, spaces and multi-agency support services for young peoples' development. * Provide significant additional social value, e.g. to support young people's employment. * Work closely with the other providers and the three locality networks to shape and support the delivery of high quality youth work across the borough in line with the identified needs. * Develop a close working relationship with Targeted Youth Support (TYS)1 to ensure that disengaged and more at risk young people receive support they need at Lift and Rose Bowl. * Be an 'outward facing' provision, which assertively seeks to engage young people who have not previously been reached by the universal youth work offer, through working with the locality networks as well as other community and grassroots groups.

Lot 3: Young Islington: Platform

* Develop, deliver and host a high quality, innovative and interconnected programme of youth work activities, spaces and multi-agency support services for young peoples' development. * Provide significant additional social value, e.g. to support young people's employment. * Work closely with the other providers and the three locality networks to shape and support the delivery of high quality youth work across the borough in line with the identified needs. * Develop a close working relationship with Targeted Youth Support (TYS)1 to ensure that disengaged and more at risk young people receive support they need at Platform. * Be an 'outward facing' provision, which assertively seeks to engage young people who have not previously been reached by the universal youth work offer, through working with the locality networks as well as other community and grassroots groups

Lot 4: Youth Islington: Direct Access Prescribing Service

* Build on the learnings from the pilot phase of the service, identifying features of an effective social prescribing model to meet the wellbeing needs of young people within the 11-25 age range, intervening at the earliest point and with an additional focus on young people living with long-term or physical health conditions. * Adopt a flexible approach to targeting of the service according to the recognised need locally, this may involve expanding or altering referral partners as the service develops. * Divert inappropriate referrals from clinical mental health services and provide for un-met need though a non-clinical pathway focused around social and emotional wellness and prevention of mental ill-health. * Continue to promote understanding of and support for social prescribing approaches to mild to moderate mental health needs among referring organisations, such as the importance of wellbeing conversations. * Embed the service within the community, including informing and participating in the Locality Youth Networks to work collaboratively with other stakeholders. Lot 4 will be awarded as a separate contract to the bidder which successfully bids for lot 2. A tenderer will not be awarded lot 2 if they are unwilling or unable to deliver lot 4. Lot 4 cannot be bid for independently as a separate lot. Funding for lot 4 has only been secured for the first 12 month period.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005773-2022 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Mar 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 2 Aug 2021 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 19 Nov 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £1,050,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Active, Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active, Unsuccessful |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | ISLINGTON COUNCIL |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | North London |
| Postcode | N7 7EP |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI43 Haringey and Islington |
| Local authority | Islington |
| Electoral ward | Finsbury Park |
| Westminster constituency | Islington North |
| Delivery location | TLI London |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | LONDON YOUTH |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- 85300000 - Social work and related services

## Release History

- 2 Mar 2022 at 19:36 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005773-2022
- 9 Aug 2021 at 09:55 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012316-2021
- 9 Aug 2021 at 09:55 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019175-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.islington.gov.uk/
- https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=ad1c8172-beb4-eb11-810c-005056b64545

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