Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse 2023-25

The Home Office (the 'Authority) is seeking to award grant funding to enable the continued delivery of a national independent Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse across England and Wales to further strengthen the ability of local safeguarding partners to identify and respond effectively to child sexual abuse.

The process leading to the award of the grant will be administered using the Home Office eSourcing portal. To take part in this grant funding opportunity please see the notice below which provides important instructions for registration on the portal. Please read all information in this notice carefully. Please also find attached guidance for using the eSourcing portal. If you have any questions or problems regarding registration, please email csacentre@homeoffice.gov.uk

NOTICE TO SUPPLIERS

In December 2016, the Cabinet Office launched its minimum standards for government grants: These include the requirement that competition should be the default option when considering award of grant funding.

To comply, the Home Office has decided to manage its competitions using their Jaggaer eSourcing portal.

• How to register?

The event will be run on the Home Office (HO) Jaggaer eSourcing portal.

In order to bid for funding, bidders will first need to register on the portal via the following link: https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

Bidders should be approved for usage within 24 hours of registering on the system.

After clicking on the eSourcing portal link, it should take you to the home page. On the left-hand side of this page, just below the login boxes, there is an option to register.

To register as a supplier, you will need to provide information which will include:

Once registered as a supplier on the portal please send a notification email to csacentre@homeoffice.gov.uk to request access to the associated documents for the grant competition.

If you have any difficulties registering on the system, then you should contact the Supplier eSourcing Helpdesk: customersupport@jaggaer.com

The HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal is independent of other eSourcing portals. Therefore, if you have registered on the Crown Commercial Service Jaggaer eSourcing portal, you will also need to register on the HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal.

Please note that bids will only be accepted via the HO eSourcing portal. Any bids received outside of this system will not be considered by the Authority.

Please note that registering for access to the eSourcing tool will not make you a Home Office supplier. To be considered for award of funding you must first respond to an opportunity.

Further information about procurement at the Home Office can be found on the gov.uk website.

Additional information: Background

In 2015, the Government made a commitment in the Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation report to establish a new national Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse to identify and share high quality evidence on what works to tackle child sexual abuse. Subsequently, the Home Office established and has provided funding for a Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse from 2016-17 to 2022-23.

We are now seeking a delivery partner to provide the functions of a Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse through 2023-24 and 2024-25.

The aims for the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse are to:

Other information: Market engagement event

An virtual market engagement event for the CSA Centre 2023-25 competition will be held on Monday 3 October, 1pm-1.45pm.

This event will provide an opportunity for the Home Office to outline the purpose of the grant funding, the expectations of the functions/role of the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse for 2023-25, as well as the application process. There will also be a question and answer section where attendees will have the opportunity to ask any questions and seek clarity on any details.

Please register your interest in attending this event by emailing your name and organisation to csacentre@homeoffice.gov.uk requesting dial in details.