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title: "0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Framework Re-Opening"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03b7a8"
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# 0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Framework Re-Opening

Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03b7a8

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## Summary

The procurement process involves Essex County Council, Suffolk County Council, and Thurrock Council seeking providers for specialist adoption and support services. The tender title is "0762 Specialist Adoption and SGO Support Services Framework Re-Opening" within the health and social work services category. The procurement stage is currently active, with a deadline for tender submissions on 1st May 2023. The services aim to enhance stability, resilience, and wellbeing of adoptive and SGO families and are open for bidders to join the framework.

This opportunity is suitable for businesses offering a wide range of training, therapeutic interventions, specialist assessments, and short breaks tailored for adoptive and SGO families. Training should cover areas such as Non Violent Resistance, Attachment, and Theraplay. Therapeutic interventions may include Art therapy, Music therapy, and Cognitive behavioral therapy. Providers are expected to deliver services in line with the Adoption Support Fund, thus offering potential business growth opportunities for those in the health services and social work sectors.

## 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 The current framework has been live for one year, and we are looking to invite bidders to join the framework to increase the provider potential for our children and young people. 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.

### 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 Currosity 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. 4.1 Therapeutic Short Breaks

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009436-2023 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| 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 | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 1 May 2023 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 30 May 2023 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| 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 | Active |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Additional buyers | SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL; THURROCK COUNCIL |
| Locality | CHELMSFORD |
| Post town | Chelmsford |
| Postcode | CM1 1QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH32 Thurrock |
| Local authority | Thurrock |
| Electoral ward | Grays Riverside |
| Westminster constituency | Thurrock |
| Delivery location | TLH1 East Anglia, TLH3 Essex |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- 85100000 - Health services
- 85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people
- 85312000 - Social work services without accommodation
- 85320000 - Social services
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

## Release History

- 31 Mar 2023 at 10:55 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009436-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=2ee4fa0a-17c4-ed11-8120-005056b64545
- https://www.essex.gov.uk/
- https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/
- https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/

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