Contract for the Provision of Emotional Wellbeing & Enhanced Inclusion Support Pathways

The London Borough of Waltham Forest (“the Authority”) is seeking to determine market options for the provision of Enhanced Inclusion & Alternative Education Provision (AP) services. We are also seeking to determine the market capacity for Inclusion & Alternative Education Provision options.

Providers from across the market are invited to submit details on what they are able to provide in this sector. The range of services that we are reviewing are as follows:

London Borough of Waltham Forest is looking for a supplier/suppliers to provide Emotional Wellbeing & Enhanced Inclusion Support Pathways to vulnerable young people. To provide support to keep more children and young people safe, well, resilient and independent, and support them to get the most from educational opportunities in mainstream schools, wherever possible.

To build capacity in Waltham Forest schools and settings to respond to social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs of children, to reduce the need for exclusion from school, and to improve children’s life chances;

Strengthen our response to children at risk of exclusion through commissioning and delivery of an evidence-led and trauma-informed menu of enhanced supports and interventions designed to reduce the need for children to be excluded from our schools and settings;

Develop a holistic approach to inclusion and AP that reduces harms and poor outcomes, such as NEET, offending, missing from home, exploitation and abuse, drug dealing, substance misuse, serious youth violence and harmful sexual behaviour;

Apply a multi-disciplinary approach with expertise in safeguarding, youth justice, mental health, early help, family support, parenting, education, and health that joins up support pathways via assessment, planning, intervention and provision to reduce risks of exclusion and poor outcomes.

To maximise impact of interventions to ensure children remain in mainstream education for as long as possible. The focus on inclusivity is vital to our joined-up approach.

The Supplier is expected to work with children in mainstream settings and out of mainstream settings to improved emotional wellbeing for children at risk of exclusion.