--- title: "Kids time - Targeted programme for young carers" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Award" buyer: "NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD" published: "2025-03-24" --- # Kids time - Targeted programme for young carers Buyer: NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD Current stage: Award OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04f7c3.json) ## Summary The NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board has completed the procurement process for a targeted programme titled "Kids time - Targeted programme for young carers," within the services industry category, specifically social work and related services. The contract for this programme, aimed at supporting young carers, is located in the London (UKI43) region. The procurement was carried out via a direct method specific to light touch regimes, under a below-threshold, non-competitive process. Key dates include the contract start on 1st April 2025 and its end on 31st March 2026, with an award value of £36,549. The operational model focuses on delivering a safe, inclusive environment for children of parents with mental health challenges, offering workshops to enhance understanding and support. This tender presents significant business growth opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs) engaged in social work and related services. Suitable businesses are those experienced in delivering family support services, particularly those that address mental health issues. Organisations with a strong background in child and adolescent mental health, providing educational and supportive environments for children and young carers, would be prime candidates to benefit from this contract. The programme's community-centric approach also opens avenues for networking and collaboration with local health and social care providers, enhancing service reach and impact. ## Notice Programme aims: Kidstime is a national programme delivered locally which seeks to enable children and young people who have parents with mental illness, or mental health challenges (which could also be impacting physical health or socio-economic factors of life) increase their confidence and coping skills and reduce feelings of distress and isolation, by providing a safe environment for them to share experiences, receive information, and explore myths about mental illness. The workshops also aim to help support and enhance the parenting capacities of parents with mental health challenges. The overall purpose of Kidstime is to reduce the likelihood that children of parents with mental illnesses/challenges themselves will develop emotional difficulties later in life. Specifically, it's aims are as follows: * To help children and young people benefit from understandable explanations of their parents' mental illness and the parental behaviour which may be associated with this. * To address the children's various fears and confusion, and lack of knowledge about mental illness and its treatment. * To help the parents who suffer from mental illness to find a medium within which the illness and its impact can be discussed between themselves and their children. * To help the parents to access or rediscover their pride, confidence, and competencies as parents. * To help the children and young people to feel free to engage in pleasurable, age-appropriate activities. Target group: Kidstime workshops are open to the entire family--parents, carers, children, and young people. Children and young people who attend Kidstime are predominantly aged between 4 and 16 years, though sometimes both older and younger children and young people have been included. Adult attendees are parents from the local area with mental health problems, ranging from severe and persistent psychotic disorders, such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, or personality disorders, through to chronic depression and anxiety disorders. A few have dual diagnosis or problems such as substance misuse in addition to their primary diagnosis. Partners who do not suffer from mental illness may also attend. Typically, attendees represent the socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds of families living within the locality of workshop delivery. Operational model: Key elements: * A strong focus on explanation of parental mental illness. * A setting that brings children and parents together around the topic of mental illness (rather than professionals engaging with them separately, as they may have previously experienced). In this joint context, both the influences of parental mental illness on children and the effect of the children's responses on parents can be addressed. * A safe and welcoming environment that provides opportunities for developing relationships across families - both between children or adults of one family to the same age group in another, and cross-generational or inter-family relationships. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010847-2025 | | Notice type | UK5 - Transparency Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Direct | | Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Award | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 24 Mar 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | 24 Mar 2025 | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | £36,549 | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Complete | | Lots status | Complete | | Awards status | Pending | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | North London | | Postcode | N1 1TH | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI43 Haringey and Islington | | Local authority | Islington | | Electoral ward | Laycock | | Westminster constituency | Islington South and Finsbury | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85300000 - Social work and related services ## Release History - 24 Mar 2025 at 10:38 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010847-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010847-2025 24th March 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents - https://www.nclhealthandcare.org.uk/icb/north-central-london-integrated-care-board ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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