SSBC Family Mentor Service Bulwell

Family Mentors are a ground-breaking peer workforce of people who 'speak the same language' as local families and the service was developed through a comprehensive process of consultation and co-production with local parents and families.

They were recruited for their 'lived experience' of parenting within local communities to enable greater insight into local challenges and support parents to be the best they can. They understand and are able to guide SSBC parents along a journey that results in healthy, happy, communicative and fulfilled children. The Family Mentors work closely with Health Visiting Teams, Early Help and other statutory and third sector agencies.

Family Mentors are at the core of Small Steps Big Changes - central to our values and our commitment to co-production with local communities.

There are two parts to the Family Mentor service, a manualised home visiting programme - Small Steps at Home and Family Mentor community group activities. The service also includes volunteering opportunities in group delivery support and administration.

The Family Mentor Service has been shown to make a significant contribution to the delivery of all four of our programme outcomes since its inception and roll-out in June 2015. Building on this success and incorporating the lessons learned since 2015 this re-tender for the current contract, as it approaches expiry, seeks to continue to deliver support activities and interventions to local families in Bulwell ward.

Bidder Clarification Event. Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC is holding a Bidder Clarification Event on 12/03/2020 at Nottingham CVS, 7 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FB.

The event will be an opportunity for all interested bidders to understand more about SSBC and ask clarification questions in relation to the procurement. Attendance is optional and all clarification questions/answers will be recorded and shared with all.

In order to attend you must register your intention via the bidder messaging function within the EU Supply Portal.

Please note that this procurement is being managed via the EU Supply Procurement Portal - https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=UK. All information associated with this contract opportunity including ITT, Service Specification and other documents are available to view via the website.

Bids must be submitted via the EU Supply Portal no later than 5pm on 6th April 2020.