Child Counselling in Education Establishments

Glasgow City Council invited tender bids to be part of a framework from suppliers with experience in delivering Counselling Services and other evidence based interventions to pupils aged 5-18 years within all mainstream primary and secondary schools across Glasgow and in secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire.

The provider(s) must:

• Improve children and young people’s mental health and be outcome focussed;
• Provide easy access to the service evidenced by referral numbers, accepted numbers and waiting times for intervention;
• Ensure children and young people receive the support they need in a structured way, working through a programme of care including outcome measures, goal-based outcomes and children’s plans,
• Ensure children and young people are receiving the right help at the right time,
• Foster strong relationship-based Interventions and care plans for children and young people,
• Ensure children and young people and carers are well informed of available supports and services and can access the supports with marketing information regarding the service being provided in appropriate formats and media via school setting.

The provider(s) must be able to provide the following management information during the contract:

• A set of case studies and quotes report based on qualitative data from actual referrals,
• A termly update report which provides a top line overview of programme activities and outcomes,
• End of year evaluation report, assessing the counselling outcomes and wider impact.