Child Counselling in Education Establishments

Description

Glasgow City Council invited tender bids to be part of a framework from suppliers with experience in delivering Counselling Services and other evidence based interventions to pupils aged 5-18 years within all mainstream primary and secondary schools across Glasgow and in secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire. The provider(s) must: - Improve children and young people’s mental health and be outcome focussed; - Provide easy access to the service evidenced by referral numbers, accepted numbers and waiting times for intervention; - Ensure children and young people receive the support they need in a structured way, working through a programme of care including outcome measures, goal-based outcomes and children’s plans, - Ensure children and young people are receiving the right help at the right time, - Foster strong relationship-based Interventions and care plans for children and young people, - Ensure children and young people and carers are well informed of available supports and services and can access the supports with marketing information regarding the service being provided in appropriate formats and media via school setting. The provider(s) must be able to provide the following management information during the contract: - A set of case studies and quotes report based on qualitative data from actual referrals, - A termly update report which provides a top line overview of programme activities and outcomes, - End of year evaluation report, assessing the counselling outcomes and wider impact. Lot 2: One to One Counselling - Primary Schools Access to Counselling service (one to one) for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 Primary schools within Glasgow in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4 Lot 3: Play Therapy - Primary Schools Access to Play therapy for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 mainstream primary schools in Glasgow in line with the information detailed in in section II.1.4. Lot 4: Art Therapy - Primary Schools Access to Art Therapy for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 mainstream primary schools in Glasgow in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4 Lot 1: Secondary Schools - Counselling Services Access to Counselling services for pupils within 30 mainstream secondary schools in Glasgow and in secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4