Online Support for Neurodiverse CYP and their families/carers

Description

Midland Partnership University Foundation Trust (MPFT) is seeking to engage with potential suppliers to help shape the procurement strategy for an online tool to provide support for Neurodiverse children and young people (CYP) and their parents/carers Lot 1: MPFT is seeking to deliver an online service providing easy access to early help and support to CYP and their families where there is concern that the young person may be neurodivergent or have a neurodevelopmental condition such as ADHD or Autism The intended outcome is a digital tool that will cover 2 elements: Profiling and access to digital resources - Provides an online profiling tool which will enable CYP, parents, carers and professionals working with the family to describe a child’s neurodiversity and difference across sub-profiles which will be sensitive to the child’s age and expected development for that age - Provides a tailored response based upon the scoring of these profiles that identifies strengths and difficulties and identifies resources in an engaging and easy to access manner appropriate to the audience - Measurable wellbeing build pre and post engagement with the tools - Be available digitally - Have the ability to trigger a referral to MPFT services that brings across the profile and the opportunity to provide additional information Psychoeducation and Further Support - Provide synchronous/live workshops for CYP/parents and carers to join on a range of pertinent topics available at times accessible to CYP and families and tailored to the audience. These are to be provided by appropriately qualified professionals to give advice or signpost other resources - Platform should support confidentiality of participants - Provide access to asynchronous psychoeducation for CYP/parents and carers to access in their own time in a range of formats - Provide peer to peer support in a safe and moderated platform that preserves confidentiality The supplier(s) will need to engage with a wide range of teams to deliver the tool including: - Local Teams - GP’s - Frontline practitioners - Local Schools - MPFT Children and Family Services - Staffordshire County Council - 3rd Sector Organisations - Service Users Suppliers will be required to have an organisational Safeguarding policy and comply with local safeguarding policies and procedures and adhere to statutory requirements relating to safeguarding and child protection Suppliers are invited to register to attend an online engagement event to be held via Teams on 8th December You must complete the provided questionnaire and submit via EU Supply. This event will consist of a presentation to give further information and a Question and Answer session. This information will form part of any future competition pack. The information provided by suppliers as part of this market engagement will be used to define the procurement strategy and will have no bearing on the outcome of any future exercise. Lot 1: MPFT is seeking to deliver an online service providing easy access to early help and support to CYP and their families where there is concern that the young person may be neurodivergent or have a neurodevelopmental condition such as ADHD or Autism The intended outcome is a digital tool that will cover 2 elements: Profiling and access to digital resources - Provides an online profiling tool which will enable CYP, parents, carers and professionals working with the family to describe a child’s neurodiversity and difference across sub-profiles which will be sensitive to the child’s age and expected development for that age - Provides a tailored response based upon the scoring of these profiles that identifies strengths and difficulties and identifies resources in an engaging and easy to access manner appropriate to the audience - Measurable wellbeing build pre and post engagement with the tools - Be available digitally - Have the ability to trigger a referral to MPFT services that brings across the profile and the opportunity to provide additional information Psychoeducation and Further Support - Provide synchronous/live workshops for CYP/parents and carers to join on a range of pertinent topics available at times accessible to CYP and families and tailored to the audience. These are to be provided by appropriately qualified professionals to give advice or signpost other resources - Platform should support confidentiality of participants - Provide access to asynchronous psychoeducation for CYP/parents and carers to access in their own time in a range of formats - Provide peer to peer support in a safe and moderated platform that preserves confidentiality The supplier(s) will need to engage with a wide range of teams to deliver the tool including: - Local Teams - GP’s - Frontline practitioners - Local Schools - MPFT Children and Family Services - Staffordshire County Council - 3rd Sector Organisations - Service Users Suppliers will be required to have an organisational Safeguarding policy and comply with local safeguarding policies and procedures and adhere to statutory requirements relating to safeguarding and child protection Suppliers are invited to register to attend an online engagement event to be held via Teams on 8th December You must complete the provided questionnaire and submit via EU Supply. This event will consist of a presentation to give further information and a Question and Answer session. This information will form part of any future competition pack. The information provided by suppliers as part of this market engagement will be used to define the procurement strategy and will have no bearing on the outcome of any future exercise.