Health services

Tender description

Money has been made available by NHS England for the development of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This includes the intention to support schools and colleges by building on existing links with Education. The service for Improving Mental Health and Emotional Well-being in Schools will be aligned with the priorities in Somerset's Transformation Plan for Children and Young People's Mental Health and Well-being (www.somersetccg.nhs.uk/about-us/how-we-do-things/cypcommissioning/), particularly the objective to ‘promote good mental health, build resilience and identify and address emerging mental health difficulties early on.’ The service will be based on the ethos of being ‘children and young-person led’ with the role of the provider being to facilitate children and young-person led projects within schools across Somerset. It is expected that the service will encompass some training, resilience building programmes and initiatives to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health conditions. Using the children and young-person led approach; it is planned that these projects will be delivered peer to peer in addition to support for parents and teaching staff. The deadline for submissions of the tender was 25.10.2016. Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the In-Tend portal, and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above. The total budget available was 293 096 GBP per annum inclusive of VAT and contract term is set for 36 months with an option to extension for up to a further 24 months at the commissioner's discretion. The total budget available for the three year contract was 879 288 GBP and the maximum value was 1 465 480 GBP if the extension options are adopted.