CS5385 Children' Rights Advocacy Service
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Market Engagement Event Title: LBTH Children's Rights Advocacy Service - Lot 1: Advocacy + Lot 2: Return Home Interviews (RHI's) Date: 24/09/2018 from13:00 to 17:00 Invited: Advocacy and Return Home Interviews (RHI) providers Purpose: to outline proposed key elements of the specification and to seek views and ideas from the market to form the specification.
Contract Annual Value: £133,480 (Advocacy) + £50,000 (RHI) = £183,480 Information about the Service: Advocacy plays a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, and protecting them from harm and neglect.
As such, it is a statutory requirement for all Local Authorities with social services responsibilities to ensure that advocacy services are provided for children and young people making or intending to make a complaint under section 24D or section 26 of the Children Act 1989.
In addition, the statutory guidance on children who go missing from care January 2014 requires Local Authorities to prevent children from going missing and to protect them when they do by offering independent return interviews.
This guidance is issued under Section 7 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 which requires local authorities in exercising their social services functions, to act under the general guidance of the Secretary of State.
The Children's Rights Advocacy Service will offer advice and support to all Tower Hamlets' Looked After Children, Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities (CWD) to help empower them to reach their potential and uphold their human rights.
The tender will consist of 2 lots, 1.
Advocacy: 2.
Return Home Interviews (RHI): Tower Hamlets requires provider(s) to deliver an Advocacy and/ or RHI Service of high quality in order to safeguard Looked After Children, Care Leavers and CWD.
The provider(s) must demonstrate fitness of purpose in organisation, financial viability and staff competence.
For avoidance of doubt this is not a call for competition at this stage, the purpose is to advise the market on the forthcoming procurement of London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) Children's Rights Advocacy Service - Lot 1: Advocacy + Lot 2: Return Home Interviews (RHI's)and to seek ideas from the market to inform the specification Deadline for expressions of interest in attending the event: 17/09/2018 Please send expressions of interest to: Karlijn Tummers at Karlijn.Tummers@towerhamlets.gov.uk and Ikwi Mkparu at Ikwi.Mkparu@towerhamlets.gov.uk
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As such, it is a statutory requirement
As such, it is a statutory requirement for all Local Authorities with social services responsibilities to ensure that advocacy services are provided for children and young people making or intending to make a complaint under section 24D or section 26 of the Children Act 1989.
The Children's Rights Advocacy Service will offer
The Children's Rights Advocacy Service will offer advice and support to all Tower Hamlets' Looked After Children, Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities (CWD) to help empower them to reach their potential and uphold their human rights.
Tower Hamlets requires provider(s) to deliver
Tower Hamlets requires provider(s) to deliver an Advocacy and/ or RHI Service of high quality in order to safeguard Looked After Children, Care Leavers and CWD.
The provider(s) must demonstrate fitness of purpose
The provider(s) must demonstrate fitness of purpose in organisation, financial viability and staff competence.
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