Health and social work services

Tender description

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Tower Hamlets) is seeking to commission organisation(s) with the specialist skills and resources to provide a person-centred independent Children’s Rights Advocacy Service (CRAS) offering advice and support for all of our Looked After Children and Care Leavers (including those with a disability) to help empower them to reach their potential and uphold their human rights. The service consists out of two service lots, Advocacy and return home interviews, for which organisations are encouraged to bid, either for one or both of the service lots. A supplier briefing will take place on Friday 25.1.2019 at 2:00 p.m and is expected to last approximately one hour. Location: Room AJH204 2nd Floor Albert Jacobs House 62 Roman Road London E2 0PG Please contact Karlijn.Tummers@towerhamlets.gov.uk for further information and to register for the event by Monday 21.1.2019 The advocacy service lot will offer Children and Young People (CYP) independent and confidential advice, information and representation, while ensuring CYP have their wishes and feelings heard and views responded to appropriately. The service will: — ensure up to 90 Looked After Children (LAC) and Care Leavers (including Children with Disabilities (CWD)) per year will have access to an independent advocacy worker to support their needs and empower them to help reach their full potential, including making complaints, — conduct up to 25 exit interviews with Care Leavers annually resulting in a report that will be submitted to Tower Hamlets’ Through Care Service. Commencement date and duration of the contract: The successful bidder(s) will commence the new service contract(s) on the 1.7.2019. The service is to be delivered for 36 months. The estimated annual value for the service lot 1: advocacy = 128 252 GBP Please note that this reflects the maximum available budget for the service, therefore tenders which exceed this figure will not be considered. The Return Home Interview (RHI) service lot will offer independent Return Interviews for Looked After Children who go missing from their placement. Independent return interviews provide an opportunity to speak to the child in confidence to ascertain the factors that led to the child going missing and any risks they may have been exposed to while missing. This will enable Tower Hamlets to implement measures to prevent reoccurrence and to safeguard the child and young person from harm. The service will: — ensure all Looked After Children who go missing will be offered an independent return interview, — ensure interviews are carried out as soon as possible once the missing child or young person has been located, aiming to meet with the child or young person within 72 hours of receiving a referral, — be available 7 days a week, — ensure to offer 4 x half day training and awareness raising sessions with Tower Hamlets’ staff per annum. Commencement date and duration of the contract: The successful bidder(s) will commence the new service contract(s) on the 1.7.2019. The service is to be delivered for 36 months. Budget: The estimated annual value for the service lot 2: Return Home Interviews (RHI) = 50 000 GBP Please note that this reflects the maximum available budget for the service, therefore tenders which exceed this figure will not be considered.