--- title: "Havering Refugee & Asylum Seeker Mental Health & Wellbeing Outreach Service" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING" published: "2023-09-05" --- # Havering Refugee & Asylum Seeker Mental Health & Wellbeing Outreach Service Buyer: LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2a.json) ## Summary The London Borough of Havering has planned a procurement process for a mental health and wellbeing outreach service for Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers. The service aims to address the mental health needs of this vulnerable population, including symptoms of PTSD, depression, and anxiety. The project will operate as a pilot for a minimum of 12 months, with a focus on providing clinical psychologists trained to work with asylum seekers and refugees. The buying organisation, London Borough of Havering, is seeking providers willing to operate an outreach model and offer therapy sessions on-site. This tender opportunity from the London Borough of Havering presents a chance for businesses with expertise in mental health services catering to asylum seekers and refugees to contribute to a critical social cause. Organisations with clinical psychologists trained to deal with mental health issues presented by diverse populations, willingness to operate outreach programmes, and access to interpreters in multiple languages would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The procurement stage is currently in the planning phase, with a future notice date of 29th September 2023 for potential providers to express interest and ask questions. ## Notice This is not an invitation to tender. Havering currently has circa 200 Ukrainian Refugees, around half of whom are women and half of whom are children. There are also circa 250 asylum seekers housed within a contingency hotel, all of which are adult males. One of the priority health needs for this cohort, is the provision of a mental health and wellbeing support service. This cohort tends to display symptoms of PTSD, depression and anxiety at levels far greater than the general population. This is often due to the severe trauma they have experienced or witnessed before arriving in the UK but can sometimes be due to what they experience whilst here. Asylum seekers and refugees are some of the poorest and most marginalised in society, arriving in a new country and navigating the healthcare landscape can be challenging, being able to travel to health & wellbeing services located throughout the borough can become an impossible ask for many as they simply do not have the financial means to get to all available services. There is also a significant lack of understanding and trust in mental health services amongst this cohort and a subsequent reluctance to seek mental health support. This is principally due to how mental health is often perceived in their countries of origin, which tends to still elicit a fearful response when reference is made to referring into our mental health services. This has led to extremely poor uptake and engagement with existing mental health services amongst asylum seekers and refugees. A number of asylum seekers have indicated that they also fear seeking such support may negatively impact their asylum applications. Unlike neighbouring boroughs, such as Redbridge and Waltham Forest, Havering does not have a mental health service that is bespoke for refugees. Like most London boroughs, we are seeing an increase in the number of asylum seekers and refugees. A specialist asylum seeker and refugee mental health service is therefore needed to provide parity between Havering and neighbouring boroughs, but also, the skilled expertise of clinical psychologists that are trained to deal with such cases is a current gap in service provision for Havering. Having an outreach element is vitally important to the service we are looking to launch, as we want our clinical psychologists to be on site, operating from locations that are easiest for asylum seekers and refugees to access. This removes the transport barriers that currently act as blockers to accessing wider mental health services, allows clinicians to be seen to build trust and rapport with our asylum seekers and refugees, so that they feel better able to access services and can better understand the support available. It will be important that any potential provider has: * clinical psychologists that are appropriately trained to deal with mental health issues expressed by both adult and children asylum seekers and refugees. * Be willing to operate an outreach model, and provide 1 to 1 and group therapy sessions on site from locations that are easy to access for our asylum seeker and refugee population * Have access to interpreters from a broad range of languages * Access patient records to ensure full visibility of a patients history * Have knowledge of existing mental health services that are available for Havering residents The project will operate initially as a pilot for a minimum of 12 months If this is a service you are interested in potentially providing, then please complete the feedback form which provides you with the opportunity to answer and ask questions. ### Lot Information Lot 1 If this is a service you are interested in potentially providing, then please complete the feedback form which provides you with the opportunity to answer and ask questions. This is not an invitation to tender. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026225-2023 | | 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 | 5 Sep 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 28 Sep 2023 | | 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 | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING | | Locality | ROMFORD | | Post town | Romford | | Postcode | RM1 3BB | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI5 Outer London - East and North East | | ITL 3 | TLI52 Barking & Dagenham and Havering | | Local authority | Havering | | Electoral ward | St Edward's | | Westminster constituency | Romford | | Delivery location | TLI52 Barking & Dagenham and Havering | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 5 Sep 2023 at 14:47 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026225-2023 ## Notice URLs - http://www.havering.gov.uk - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f501a1dd-e6ef-4830-a1d0-d1f6be5f2d71 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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