Therapeutic interventions for children adopted from care and their adoptive families and for children on special guardianship orders where they have previously been looked after - DPS

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Birmingham Childrens Trust (BCT), ("the Trust") is responsible for discharging the statutory Social Care duties of Birmingham City Council towards its Children, Young People and Families, among them the duty to provide an Adoption Service. In 2015 the Department for Education introduced the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) for eligible Adopters and Special Guardianship (SGOs) families across England. This fund is designed to offer families specialist therapeutic support following adoption. The purpose of this specification is to ensure quality provision for eligible Adopters and Special Guardianship (SGOs) families across England. This service provision is designed to offer families specialist therapeutic support following adoption in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families in line with statutory legislation and guidance. Lot Category 1: Therapeutic/Attachment Focused Parenting Support • Examples of this includes but is not limited to: - Secure Base / SafeBase Parenting Programme - adOpt Course - parenting programme• Providers will need to specify which standardise programme is being used Lot Category 2: Therapeutic Life Story Work • Providers will have a Diploma in Therapeutic Life Story Work or equivalent • Life story work with a therapy is used to help the young person understand and cope with the trauma and difficulties that their life story work might revisit. • Story stem Lot Category 3: Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Lot Category 4: Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Lot Category 5: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Providers will be qualified in DDP to at least Level 2 and receive clinical supervision and to have completed, or be working towards the Practicum. Lot Category 6: Solution Focussed BRIEF Therapy Providers will hold a minimum of a BRIEF Certificate in Solution Focussed Practice. Lot Category 7: Sensory Integration Processing Therapy/Therapeutic Listening Programme/ Sensory Integration Attachment Therapy Specialist sensory interventions such as Building Underdeveloped Sensori-Motor Systems (BUSS) alongside Sensory Attachment Intervention and Sensory Integration Therapy. Lot Category 8: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for the Child Provider must be qualified to level 2 with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Lot Category 9: Systemic / Multi Systemic Family Therapy Providers will be qualified in Systemic Therapy to at least level 3 and receive clinical supervision and / or attended training on Multi-Systemic Therapy. Lot Category 10: Video Interaction Guidance Providers must have attended training provided by the Association for Video Interaction Guidance UK or equivalent. Lot Category 11: Dialectical therapy (branch of CBT) Providers must hold a qualification in Dialectical Therapy, accredited by the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Lot Category 12: Reducing Anxiety Management Plan (RAMP) Providers will have attended training in Reducing Anxiety Management Planning. Lot Category 13: Neuro Integration System Therapy (NIS) Providers will have attended training in Neuro Integration System Therapy. Lot Category 14: Lego Therapy Providers will be able to evidence training in Lego-Therapy. Lot Category 15: Dance Movement Therapy Providers must hold a postgraduate qualification in dance movement therapy, accredited by the Association for Dance Movement Therapy (ADMT) UK. Lot Category 16: Group Programmes Providers must have attended training relevant to Group delivery or to a particular group programme. Lot Category 17: Educational Psychotherapy Providers must hold a qualification in Educational Psychology, accredited by the Association of Educational Psychologists. Lot Category 18: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Providers must have attended training provided by MBCT. Lot Category 19: Creative Therapy • Music Therapy• Drama Therapy• Art Therapy • MIM – Marschak Interaction Method (common theraplay) Lot Category 20: Theraplay Providers will be either fully qualified (completed Level 2 and the practicum) or have completed level 1 plus 8 supervised sessions and be operating under clinical supervision. Lot Category 21: Mindful Yoga Providers will be able to evidence training in Mindful Yoga. Lot Category 22: Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) Providers will have undertaken training in providing the NVR programme. Lot Category 23: Training for Adoptive Parents (eg. Secure Base / SafeBase Parenting Programme) Providers will have undertaken training in providing Secure Base or SafeBase parenting programmes Lot Category 24: Play Therapy Providers must hold a qualification in Play Therapy and Therapeutic play, accredited by PTUK Lot Category 25: Therapeutic support for sexualised behaviour/ sexually harmful behaviour Providers will have undertaken training in providing support for children demonstrating sexualised and sexually harmful behaviour.