Counselling and Therapeutic Support to Children and Young People in Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation

MARKET ENGAGEMENT EXERCISE

Wakefield Council is considering an approach to provide counselling and therapeutic support to children and young people who are living in dedicated domestic abuse 'safe accommodation'.

The purpose of this market consultation is to ascertain the interest of any local providers to enable an informed decision to be made in relation to any procurement opportunities available to the Council from locally based providers from across the district and neighbouring areas within the West Yorkshire area.

Ultimately we are seeking to provide an opportunity for timely counselling and therapeutic support to be delivered to children and young people in dedicated domestic abuse safe accommodation.

This will include the coordination and delivery by the project of case consultations to a limited number of specialist domestic abuse Children and Young People workers across domestic abuse support services.

Through the market engagement exercise, we wish to understand the level of budget proposed with providing this project from November/December 2023 until 31st March 2025. An indicative maximum budget for this project would be £80,000.

Completed questionnaires and any accompanying information should be uploaded to the YORtender system (https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER) reference: 76494 no later than 12:00 on Friday 4th August 2023 using the Response Wizard function.

Completed questionnaires will also be accepted via email (details outlined in the Market Consultation document).

Please note - Whilst specific information provided will not be used in any future procurement process, the feedback provided through this market engagement may be used to shape any specification should the Council go to the market for these services.

Completion of this questionnaire and any involvement in the market engagement exercise does not confer any right or expectation that the organisation will be selected for any contract should a procurement exercise be undertaken.