NHS England South - Community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (including Secure Outreach)

Tender description

NHS England Specialised Commissioning is seeking to commission Community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (including Secure Outreach). The procurement has been split into regional lots: Lot 1: NHS E - South - South East - Kent and Medway, Surrey and Sussex Lot 2: NHS E - Midlands & East - West Midlands Lot 3: NHS E - South - South West - Devon, Cornwall and Somerset Lot 4: NHS E - South - Wessex - Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire Lot 5: NHS E - Midlands & East - East of England Lot 6: NHS E - South - South West - Gloucester, Wiltshire, Swindon and Bristol, South Gloucester, BANES, North Somerset The service is a tertiary referral service for CAMHS teams, CAMHS/Youth Offending Team (YOT) link workers and neurodisability services for young people and other agencies. The team will be accessible to all agencies (e.g. social services, YOTs, prisons, courts, solicitors, education, health commissioners etc.) that may have contact with young people exhibiting risky behaviours or young people in the youth justice system who have mental health difficulties. The catchment for each service should be 'regional' in the sense that it covers a population and/or geographical area for a total population of about 2.5 million. It is likely that the catchments of some services working either in densely or sparsely populated areas or in areas with particularly high levels of deprivation will need to be organised accordingly.