Published date: 21 July 2023
Last edited date: 19 November 2024
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Closing: 29 June 2026, 12pm
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Physiotherapy services - 85142100
Social work and related services - 85300000
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Social work services - 85310000
Other community, social and personal services - 98000000
Location of contract
B4 7DJ
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
IT-100-4020-P0704a
Published date
21 July 2023
Closing date
29 June 2026
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 July 2026
Contract end date
2 July 2026
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
What is an open procedure (above threshold)?
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
Birmingham Children's 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.
This requirement has emanated from the Government's initiative to provide an Adoption Support Fund to Local Authorities and Children's Trusts to support adoptive families.
BCT is seeking to commission a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for organisation(s) to provide Therapeutic Interventions for children adopted from care and their adoptive families in response to funding available through the Adoption Support Fund (ASF).
The DPS will be established on the following categories of therapeutic services:
- Category 1 - Therapeutic/Attachment Focused Parenting Support
- Category 2 - Therapeutic Life Story Work
- Category 3 - Psychotherapy
- Category 4 - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Category 5 - Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
- Category 6 - Solution Focussed BRIEF Therapy
- Category 7 - Sensory Integration Processing Therapy/Therapeutic Listening Programme/ Sensory Integration Attachment Therapy
- Category 8 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for the Child
- Category 9 - Systemic / Multi Systemic Family Therapy
- Category 10 - Video Interaction Guidance
- Category 11 - Dialectical therapy (branch of CBT)
- Category 12 - Reducing Anxiety Management Plan (RAMP)
- Category 13 - Neuro Integration System Therapy (NIS)
- Category 14 - Lego Therapy
- Category 15 - Dance Movement Therapy
- Category 16 - Group Programmes
- Category 17 - Educational Psychotherapy
- Category 18 - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Category 19 - Creative Therapy
- Category 20 - Theraplay
- Category 21 - Mindful Yoga
- Category 22 - Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
- Category 23 - Training for Adoptive Parents (eg. Secure Base / SafeBase Parenting Programme)
- Category 24 - Play Therapy
- Category 25 - Therapeutic support for sexualised behaviour/ sexually harmful behaviour
- Category 26 - Specialist Assessment
- Category 27 - Filial Therapy
- Category 28 - Further or more complex assessme...
More information
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https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/aspx/
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Additional information on how to apply for this contract
Additional text
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If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.
Delivery Notes
Birmingham
Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
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