Independent Adoption & Special Guardianship Order Support Services
Main contract details
Opportunity Id
DN345369
Title
Independent Adoption & Special Guardianship Order Support Services
Categories
321100 - Social Community Care Supplies & Services - Children
Description
Kent County Council is seeking to commission a county-wide service regarding Independent Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Services. The services will be available to those living within the Kent County Council geographical area, or where adoption has taken place through Kent County Council.
The service will consist of four distinct elements:-
Service A: An Independent Support Service to Birth Parents.
This service provides a support and counselling service to birth parents prior to an adoption taking place, where a child is (or children are) in care and looked after by Kent County Council, and for whom adoption has been identified as the plan.
Service B: An Access to Birth Records and Intermediary Services for Adult Adoptees
This service assists adopted persons, either adopted through Kent County Council or who are resident in Kent, and who are aged 18 years or over, to obtain information in relation to their adoption, and to facilitate contact between such persons and their adult birth relatives.
Service C: Access to Information and Intermediary Services for Birth Relatives and those in Prescribed Relationship
This service provides access to non-identifying information regarding the adoption and advice and support to birth relatives and those with a prescribed relationship aged 18 years and over; including access to intermediary services when the adoptee has reached age 18 years or over.
Service D: Contact Services
This service provides contact services, direct and indirect, for children under the age of 18 years who have been adopted, or who are the subject of a Special Guardianship Order and who may have contact with their birth relatives.
Kent County Council is seeking to award one contract covering all the above under this tender process. It is the Council’s intention to award the contract for a period of three years with the potential to extend for a further two years.
The contract will commence on 1st October 2018.
Please note that these services can only be delivered by an Adoption Support Agency registered with Ofsted.
Further details on service delivery are contained in the Invitation to Tender.
Applications must be submitted via the Kent Business Portal www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk
The service will consist of four distinct elements:-
Service A: An Independent Support Service to Birth Parents.
This service provides a support and counselling service to birth parents prior to an adoption taking place, where a child is (or children are) in care and looked after by Kent County Council, and for whom adoption has been identified as the plan.
Service B: An Access to Birth Records and Intermediary Services for Adult Adoptees
This service assists adopted persons, either adopted through Kent County Council or who are resident in Kent, and who are aged 18 years or over, to obtain information in relation to their adoption, and to facilitate contact between such persons and their adult birth relatives.
Service C: Access to Information and Intermediary Services for Birth Relatives and those in Prescribed Relationship
This service provides access to non-identifying information regarding the adoption and advice and support to birth relatives and those with a prescribed relationship aged 18 years and over; including access to intermediary services when the adoptee has reached age 18 years or over.
Service D: Contact Services
This service provides contact services, direct and indirect, for children under the age of 18 years who have been adopted, or who are the subject of a Special Guardianship Order and who may have contact with their birth relatives.
Kent County Council is seeking to award one contract covering all the above under this tender process. It is the Council’s intention to award the contract for a period of three years with the potential to extend for a further two years.
The contract will commence on 1st October 2018.
Please note that these services can only be delivered by an Adoption Support Agency registered with Ofsted.
Further details on service delivery are contained in the Invitation to Tender.
Applications must be submitted via the Kent Business Portal www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk
Region(s) of supply
United Kingdom
Estimated value
£1,881,375.00
Keywords
Adoption
Key dates
Estimated contract dates
Start date
01/10/2018
End date
30/09/2021
Expression of interest window
From 11/06/2018 11:00 to 09/07/2018 12:00
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Contact details
Buyer
Kent County Council
Contact
Madeline Bishop
Telephone
03000 415852
Address
Sessions House
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1XQ
United Kingdom
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1XQ
United Kingdom
