Awarded contract

W5031 Family Help Mentoring & Advocacy Programme for Children, Young People and Parents/Carers in the Borough of Walsall

Details

Supplier(s)
Value
£600,000
Duration
1 year
Topic
Provision of services to the community
Published
18 May 2026

Tender description

The Walsall Council is looking to commission the provision of Family Help Mentoring & Advocacy Programme for Children, Young People and Parents/Carers in the Borough of Walsall. The service will be testing significant reforms across family help, child protection, multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and making greater use of family networks. It will provide a vision of a future system where we provide families with the right help at the right time, delivered by the right people. The programme will be delivered within the 4 localities of Walsall which are stated below. The service will be shaped around the needs of each area and will work with approximately 200 families in total through Referrals received from the Children's Family Teams within each Locality. Lot 1 - North Locality (Bloxwich East, Bloxwich West, Birchills Leamore, Blakenall). Lot 2 - South and Central Locality (Walsall South- St Matthews, Paddock, Palfrey, Pleck). Lot 3 - East Locality (Pelsall, Brownhills, Aldridge North, Rushall-Shelfield and Walsall Wood Aldridge and Beacon). Lot 4 - West Locality (Bentley and Darlaston North, Darlaston South, Willenhall North, Short Heath, Willenhall South). ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published18 May 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date18 May 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 May 2027in 8 months

About the buyer

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council governs the borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, and buys as a local authority with its own procurement team. Contract opportunities are advertised on Find a Tender, the UK government's central procurement platform introduced under the Procurement Act 2023. Suppliers register both an organisation profile and an administrator account there before submitting a bid. Buying decisions follow the council's Innovating our Success Commercial Strategy 2024-2029. Social value sits alongside price and quality in every award decision. A public contracts register lists every agreement the council has awarded.

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 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council's contract awards have been in education and training, software and information systems and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 75200000 · Provision of services to the community
  • 85300000 · Social work and related services
  • 98000000 · Other community, social and personal services

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