Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service For Looked After Children and Care Leavers
Description: Wigan Council is seeking to appoint a provider to deliver an Emotional and Mental Health Service for Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers. The service will provide flexible, evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic and preventative support to children and young people in care, care leavers and their carers. Interventions will include a range of psychological and therapeutic approaches, individual and group work, therapeutic parenting support, psychological consultation and formulation, systemic and dyadic approaches, assessments and evidence-based parenting programmes. The service will work closely with Wigan Council's social care teams to improve the mental health, emotional wellbeing and resilience of children and young people, support carers and foster carers, prevent escalation to more specialist services, and promote placement stability and permanence. A key focus will be ensuring that (read more...)
Summary: Wigan Council is procuring an emotional health and wellbeing service for children and young people in care, care leavers and their carers. The service will provide flexible, evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic and preventative support, including psychological and therapeutic interventions, individual and group work, therapeutic parenting support, psychological consultation and formulation, systemic and dyadic approaches, assessments, and evidence-based parenting programmes. The provider will work with Wigan Council’s social care teams to improve mental health, emotional wellbeing and resilience, support carers and foster carers, prevent escalation to more specialist services, and promote placement stability and permanence. It will support Wigan children and young people whether placed within or outside Wigan Borough, using suitable venues and, where necessary, out-of-hours provision. This is a health and social work service.