North East London Child Sexual Abuse - Emotional Support Service

The North East London Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Emotional Support Service will offer early emotional support to children, young people and their families being seen for a CSA paediatric assessment in the boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, City and Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. The paediatricians providing CSA paediatric assessments in these boroughs will work with the emotional support practitioners, providing a holistic health review focused on the needs of the child/young person and their family.

The service will provide 6-8 sessions of support including trauma-informed early help, advocacy and case management, and symptom management, with safe and appropriate onward referral when necessary. The support will be provided to the child/young person and/or their safe parent/carer, dependent as most appropriate, led by and tailored to the child/young person. There will be no mental health threshold for access to the service.

Where more appropriate the service will signpost to specialist services for immediate or later support, and/or make an urgent referral to CAMHS for specialist longer term therapy with crisis management.

The early Emotional Support Service will commence at the initial CSA paediatric appointment with the paediatrician and emotional support practitioner both present whenever possible. Follow on sessions will be provided in a suitable setting within North East London, ideally close to the child's home, such as children's centres, health clinics, schools, local public spaces, or within the provider's premises.

Additional information: The CCG is following a non OJEU Open Procedure procurement to procure this service. Interested organisations must express their interest by registering on Pro-contract: https://www.procontract-due-north.com

The contract will run for 2 years with a one year extension.

The CCG will be holding a series of site visits to be held between the 30th July and 17th August 2018. Further information will be sent out via the Pro Contract discussion board.

The closing date for this tender will be 12.00 noon 24th August 2018. Responses received after this deadline will not be considered.

Further information and submission of the tenders will be via the Pro-Contract e-tendering system https://www.procontract.due-north.com