Market Engagement Event for an Early Help Service for Children and Young People for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR)

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AG CSU), on behalf of the Commissioners, West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and Leicester City CCG, would like to invite potential providers to attend a market engagement event in relation to the CCGs’ plans to procure an early help targeted mental health and emotional wellbeing support service for young people.

The CCGs are intending to commission a newly specified service from April 2017, which will provide prevention and early intervention support for issues relating to low level mental health needs and emotional wellbeing, such as anxiety, isolation and mild depression, amongst a range of other concerns.

The service will include an individual to co-ordinate the service and provide regular reporting against the KPIs and a team of practitioners to be based in localities in existing Local Authority premises within the Early Help intervention teams. Young people will be identified through early help interventions and referred into this new service. The service will deliver counselling, individual support and therapeutic group work, at a greater intensity of intervention than provided by universal family support services.

It is expected that the Provider will work in an integrated way with other primary mental health services, and voluntary and community groups will be integral to the provision of the service.

The market engagement event will take place in the morning of Wednesday 9th November 2016, in Leicester city centre, and will be an opportunity for potential providers to learn more about the proposed service. Further details of the agenda and venue will be circulated the week before the event.

Places are strictly limited therefore reservations are restricted to no more than 2 persons per organisation. To reserve your place please email the following details to LLRProcurement@ardengemcsu.nhs.uk before 12pm Wednesday 2nd November 2016:

The tender will be advertised on the new Contracts Finder website (https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search) and will be run through AGCSU’s procurement portal Bravo (https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html). We recommend that you register with both of these websites in the meantime.