Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Treatment Service

Description

The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood. Lot 1: The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood. This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process. The core contract value is £7,483,546. Grant funding of approximately 10% of the contract value (£7,483,546) has been confirmed for Year 1 and will be made available to the Provider for service delivery. Grant funding for additional years is subject to availability of National Grant. The Most Suitable Provider that has been identified through the process is the existing Provider. The intention is to award the contract to the Provider to deliver the new service which is not changing considerably from the previous. The proposed contract start date is 3rd April 2025 for a 5 year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.