Expired contract

Early Help Family Support & Play Service

Details

Buyer: Bath and North East Somerset Council
Supplier(s): Southside
Value: £2,004,157
Duration: 3 years
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 29 July 2021
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

The targeted Early Help Family Support and Play Service will provide trauma-informed specialist family support and therapeutic child-led play activities for vulnerable children and their parents and carers. The Family Support and Play Service (FSPS) will deliver therapeutic approaches to support vulnerable children and young people to increase their self-esteem, relationships, resilience and social skills whilst also supporting their parents/carers to improve their emotional resilience and ability to support their children. The Service will provide therapeutic approaches to deliver whole family support and will work closely with schools to identify and support children, young people and their parent/carers who require targeted early help to prevent their needs escalating. The FSPS will form part of the targeted family support service model for Bath and North East Somerset which sits in between universal services and children's statutory social and health care services.

Timeline

Completed: Award date23 July 2021
Completed: Award published29 July 2021
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date31 October 2024

About the buyer

Bath and North East Somerset Council is a local authority that buys works, goods, services and professional advice through its own procurement team. Almost all contracts are listed and managed on Supplying the South West, where suppliers register before applying. New opportunities above a low value threshold are advertised on the council website and on the Central Digital Platform. Pre-agreed contracts cover almost every requirement, with spot purchases kept for low value items. External frameworks hosted by the Crown Commercial Service, ESPO, NEPO, YPO and Matrix Prism give a further route to market. Most contracts run for between three and five years.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Bath and North East Somerset Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, architectural and engineering services and construction work.

Relevant CPV codes

85000000 · Health and social work services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@bath-and-north-east-somerset-council.gov