--- title: "0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Re-Opening" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL" published: "2023-03-16" --- # 0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Re-Opening Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03b36d.json) ## Summary The Essex County Council is planning a tender with the title "0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Re-Opening" within the Health and social work services industry category. The procurement is at the planning stage, aimed at securing providers to deliver support services to adoptive and SGO families in Essex, Thurrock, and Suffolk. The purpose is to meet statutory duties, improve family stability, provide specialist therapeutic services, and ensure efficient use of available funding. The maximum yearly spend is approximately £4,968,920. This procurement opportunity presents potential for training, therapeutic intervention, specialist assessments, and short breaks services. Businesses offering a wide range of skills and evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of adoptive and SGO families would be well-suited to compete in this tender. The framework allows for multiple lots awarded per supplier, creating opportunities for providers offering diverse support services to families in need. ## Notice Introduction Essex(ECC), Thurrock and Suffolk (SCC) County Council are seeking to secure a range of good quality providers to deliver support services to adoptive and SGO families. This is to meet statutory duties to provide adoption and SGO support services. The overarching aims of creating a framework are: * to promote sufficiency and capacity of quality services across Essex, Thurrock and Suffolk local * to improve the stability, resilience and wellbeing of adoptive and SGO families and meet their therapeutic needs * to have a compliant mechanism to purchase a variety of specialist therapeutic services * To use funding available for these services including the Adoption Support Fund as effectively and efficiently as possible Scope of Services * Adopted children and those subject to a Special Guardianship Order often have moderate to complex mental health and emotional well-being needs. Therapeutic interventions and assessments are required to assist both children and adults to deal with the long-term effects of what abuse and trauma provide. All services commissioned to provide adoption and SGO support and assessment will meet the following outcomes: * Reduction and/or prevention of adoption and Special Guardianship Order placement disruptions and children re-entering care. * Enable children and families affected by adoption or Special Guardianship Orders to achieve/maintain stability and reach their full potential as individuals and as family groups. * Adoptive and Special Guardianship Order families to enjoy strong and stable family relationships. * Adoptive and Special Guardianship Order families are resilient and have the skills and knowledge to support themselves and each other. Ensure that the most cost efficient and effective services can be supplied to families. * There is an Adoption Support and a Special Guardianship Order Support Teams within ECC Children and Families service. These teams provide universal to complex adoption and SGO support county-wide. Some of these services are provided directly by the adoption and SGO team and the rest via a framework contract of specialist support. When families first contact the adoption and SGO teams they undertake an assessment of their support needs to decide if further support is required and where required a support plan is developed with the family. * Thurrock's Fostering and Adoption teams offer adoption and SGO support within Children's Services in Thurrock Council. They too, in common with ECC provide universal to complex support to families and their carers while accessing additional support for more complex cases from the currently contracted provider. When families and carers access the teams for support, they are accessed to understand their needs which informs decisions regarding the level required. * Suffolk currently have a Permanence Support Team offering Adoption Support and a Special Guardianship Order Support Team within Children and Families . These teams are based in the 3 areas of Suffolk. The teams provide universal to complex adoption and special guardianship order support. Some of these services are provided directly from the Permanence Support team and the rest via spot purchase arrangements. When families first contact the Permanence Support team, they undertake an assessment of their support needs, to decide if further support is required and where required, develop a support plan with the family. Approximate Yearly Spend The approximate spend per year through the current framework is PS550,000 for Essex, and separately our partners expenditure on these services is PS126,000 for Thurrock and PS480,000 for SCC with a combined spend of PS1,156,000. If the Adoption Support Fund were to end/reduce, then the spend may be significantly reduced however the framework will still be the vehicle used to purchase additional support. ### Lot Information Training Training is expected to cover a wide range of skills and approaches as identified within a family individual plan and the most common types of training required are listed below. All training offered should: be delivered by suitably qualified trainers with subject specialism; be clearly focused on meeting the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families; be planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team; feedback from all course attendees should be sought for each course and given to each Local Authority (LA). This lot includes the following types of training but is not limited to: 1.1. Non Violent Resistance 1.2. Attachment 1.3. Matching 1.4. Transitions 1.5. Theraplay 1.6. Communicating and connecting 1.7. Life story 1.8. Contact 1.9. Friends and family 1.10. Playfulness Acceptance Curiosity Explore 1.11. Therapeutic parenting Therapeutic intervention Therapeutic intervention will be wide ranging in order to meet individual needs but should be evidence based and in line with therapies listed under the ASF. They must be tailored to meet the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families, and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team. This lot includes the following types of therapeutic intervention but is not limited to: 2.1 Art therapy 2.2 Dance movement therapy 2.3 Yoga 2.4 Music therapy 2.5 Play therapy 2.6 Group-based art or play therapy 2.7 Filial therapy 2.8 Lego Therapy 2.9 Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) 2.10 Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) 2.11 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) 2.12 Internal Families System Therapy 2.13 Reducing anxiety management plan (RAMP) 2.14 Sensory Integration Processing Therapy or therapeutic listining Programme 2.15 Cognitive Therapy 2.16 Education Psychotherapy 2.17 Group Based Art or Play Therapy 2.18 Attachment Therapy 2.19 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) 2.20 Child to Parent Violence (CPV) Individual Based Programme 2.21 Multi-systemic family therapy 2.22 Systemic family therapy 2.23 Psychodynamic therapy 2.24 Theraplay 2.25 Koru Project 2.26 Therapeutic life story work for the child 2.27 Individual psychological therapy 2.28 Drama Therapy 2.29 Neuro-integration system therapy (NIS)Psychoanalytical therapy 2.30 Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (VIPP-SD) Specialist Assessments Following a social work assessment of support needs, there are occasions when a specialist assessment is indicated. Providers will deliver robust clinical assessment of children and young people's developmental trauma and attachment. All assessments provided should be delivered by suitably qualified trainers and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team. The assessments that this service will provide include, but are not limited to: 3.1. Comprehensive systemic family assessments 3.2. Psychological & psychiatric assessments 3.3. Assessments of therapeutic needs 3.4. Assessments of contact needs 3.5. Sensory integration/occupational therapy assessments 3.6. Multi-disciplinary assessments Short Breaks Short breaks commissioned will include therapeutic breaks for the whole family or child only, to provide structured and supported time with access to therapeutic services and an opportunity to develop peer relationships with other adoptive and SGO families. Providers of breaks will be expected to work with the Local Authority to provide a service that will meet the needs of the families referred. Renewal: The Framework is opened annually for new providers to submit bids ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007686-2023 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 Mar 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 30 Mar 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £4,968,920 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | 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 | TLH1 East Anglia, TLH3 Essex | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 16 Mar 2023 at 13:21 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007686-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://www.essex.gov.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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