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title: "Family Innovation Fund (2023 - 2026) - Risky Behaviours"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03781a"
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# Family Innovation Fund (2023 - 2026) - Risky Behaviours

Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03781a

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## Summary

The Essex County Council has issued a tender titled "Family Innovation Fund (2023 - 2026) - Risky Behaviours" under the services category. The tender includes a total value of £480,000 allocated for the Risky Behaviours programme, with delivery planned across Essex. The contract period is set from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2026. The submission deadline for this tender is December 16, 2022, and the award period starts on December 19, 2022, with the bid opening at County Hall, Chelmsford.

This tender presents an opportunity for businesses involved in social work, membership organisation services, and related sectors to compete for the provision of early interventions targeting children and young people exhibiting risky behaviours in Essex. Businesses that can deliver face-to-face or online support programmes, especially in school and youth settings, are well-suited to bid for this contract. The Essex County Council is actively seeking partners to support its Family Innovation Fund objectives and deliver positive outcomes for the community.

## Notice

The Family Innovation Fund enables ECC to work with its partners in the voluntary and community sector to deliver good outcomes as early as possible. The services will not support those children, young people and families already known to and in receipt of support from specialist and statutory services, rather they will ensure delivery of support that complements, not duplicates existing services such as; * School funded support at additional levels of need * Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service * Essex Integrated Wellbeing Service * Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service * Family Solutions By Early Intervention we mean stopping something occurring or getting worse and for the purposes of this funding will provide brief, light touch interventions that will enable children, young people, parents and carers to draw on their own resources and resilience to resolve future problems. This Grant is concerned with working with children and young people with exhibiting early signs of risky behaviours working in schools and youth settings through small group programmes. This will usually take place face to face however, it may also take place using on-line platforms if that is deemed appropriate, for example during holiday periods or weekends/evenings. The total Family Innovation Fund is PS1,200,000 over three years, PS480,000 of which is allocated for the Risky Behaviours programme (RBP). 2023/24 PS200,000 2024/25 PS140,000 2025/26 PS140,000 RBP will be delivered across Essex but priority will be given to The Essex Levelling Up areas set out in the table in 6.1 to support the delivery of our levelling ambitions and Everyone's Essex Plan Everyones Essex There will be provision within the Grant Agreement, at the discretion of ECC to extend the grants for up to two years on a one plus one year basis. There will be further provision for the value to be varied within any extension up to the original year one value namely PS200,000. Provision in the Grant Agreement (clause 12) outlines the conditions under which ECC will either withhold or claim back funds paid to the provider.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The total Family Innovation Fund is PS1,200,000 over three years, PS480,000 of which is allocated for the Risky Behaviours programme (RBP). 2023/24 PS200,000 2024/25 PS140,000 2025/26 PS140,000 RBP will be delivered across Essex but priority will be given to The Essex Levelling Up areas set out in the table in 6.1 to support the delivery of our levelling ambitions and Everyone's Essex Plan Everyones Essex There will be provision within the Grant Agreement, at the discretion of ECC to extend the grants for up to two years on a one plus one year basis. There will be further provision for the value to be varied within any extension up to the original year one value namely PS200,000. Provision in the Grant Agreement (clause 12) outlines the conditions under which ECC will either withhold or claim back funds paid to the provider.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029838-2022 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 21 Oct 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 16 Dec 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2023 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £480,000 |
| Lots value | £480,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | CHELMSFORD |
| Post town | Chelmsford |
| Postcode | CM1 1QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex |
| Local authority | Chelmsford |
| Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central |
| Westminster constituency | Chelmsford |
| Delivery location | TLH3 Essex |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services
- 98 - Other community, social and personal services

### Codes

- 85300000 - Social work and related services
- 98100000 - Membership organisation services
- 98900000 - Services provided by extra-territorial organisations and bodies

## Release History

- 21 Oct 2022 at 16:04 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029838-2022

## Notice URLs

- https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=9cb64e94-3a51-ed11-811a-005056b64545
- https://www.essex.gov.uk/
- https://www.essex.gov.uk/visit-us

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