P0704a - Therapeutic interventions for children adopted from care and their adoptive families and for children on special guardianship orders where they have previously been looked after - DPS

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... Additional information: 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