Health and social work services

Tender description

The Family Innovation Fund enables ECC to work with its partners in the voluntary and community sector to deliver good outcomes as early as possible. The services will not support those children, young people and families already known to and in receipt of support from specialist and statutory services, rather they will ensure delivery of support that complements, not duplicates existing services such as: — school funded support at additional levels of need, — Esex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, — Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service, — family solutions. By early intervention we mean stopping something occurring or getting worse and for the purposes of this funding will provide brief, light touch interventions that will enable children, young people, parents and carers to draw on their own resources and resilience to resolve future problems. ECC are seeking proposals from applicants for a Grant being used at practitioners’ discretion to purchase or fund items/activities that will enable the outcomes(s) for the referred person to be delivered and sustained. There will be provision within the Grant Agreement, at the discretion of ECC to extend the grants for up to 2 years on a 1 + 1 year basis. There will be further provision for the value to be varied within any extension.