Health and social work services

Tender description

The commissioned element of the serious youth crime and prevention project will focus on the operational delivery of services to children and young people (CYP), their families and their communities, to both tackle and to prevent serious youth violence. This will be done through: — preventing people from engaging with gangs and youth violence, including through raising awareness for CYP, their communities, families and professionals who support them, — protecting vulnerable CYP by increasing community inclusion, safeguarding activity and providing intensive support. The delivery partner will work across Dartford, Gravesham, Medway, Sevenoaks and Swale to support the CYP (and their families) identified in both the prevent and the protect cohorts, although data tells us that we expect the demand for both to be predominantly in Medway, Dartford and Gravesham. The service will work flexibly across local authority boundaries to ensure that there is an effective response to CYP who are identified as needing either preventative or protective support. The service will complement provision by youth offending teams, children’s social work teams, early help or education providers. Further detail can be found in the attached draft specification.