Children's Rights, Advocacy and Independent Visitors Service

A Contract Award Notice
by LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Source
OJEU
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
4 year (est.)
Value
£833K
Sector
HEALTH
Published
15 Feb 2021
Delivery
To 15 Feb 2025 (est.)
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

Preston

Geochart for 2 buyers and 1 suppliers

2 buyers

1 supplier

Description

LCC is tendering for a children's rights, advocacy and independent visitors service. The tender can be found under RFQ 15268187 on Lancashire County Council's Oracle system. The purpose of the service is to provide support to Children and Young People (CYP) who meet the criteria for the service, through the following elements: I. Advocacy (Element 1); II. Independent visitors (Element 2). The service aims to ensure that vulnerable CYP have the opportunity to influence decisions, policies and practices that affect their lives and to provide independent advocacy support to eligible CYP and to manage and sustain a pool of volunteer independent visitors for children looked after (CLA), to fulfil the requirements set out in legislation and the accompanying regulations and guidance.

Total Quantity or Scope

LCC is tendering for a children's rights, advocacy and independent visitors service. The tender can be found under RFQ 15268187 on Lancashire County Council's Oracle system. The purpose of the service is to provide support to children and young people (CYP) who meet the criteria for the Service, through the following elements: … The advocacy element of the service provides independent professional advocacy support to individual CYP who meet the eligibility criteria for the service to ensure that their views and wishes are heard. The Independent Visitor element provides volunteers, independent of the local authority, who can befriend and assist a CYP who is looked after (CLA). Local authorities have a duty to appoint a person to be an Independent Visitor for a child or young person looked after where it appears to them to be in the CYP’s interest to do so. The purpose of this element of the Service is to manage the recruitment, training and matching of volunteer independent visitors who can befriend and assist CYP who are looked after (CLA).

Award Detail

1 National Youth Advocacy Service (Birkenhead)
  • Children's Rights, Advocacy and Independent Visitors Service
  • Num offers: 7
  • Value: £832,544
  • Contractor is an SME.

Award Criteria

Quality 80.0
PRICE 20.0

CPV Codes

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

  • Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

Please see tender documentation for further details.

Reference

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