Fresh Start Service
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Sheffield City Council has initiated a procurement process for the "Fresh Start Service" aimed at providing health and social work services, specifically targeting support for women who have had children removed from their care. The procurement, classified under the CPV code 85000000, is focused on services within the UKE region. The process progressed past the tendering stage, reaching the award update and contract update stages by 23rd April 2025.
Notably, the contract was signed with Airedale Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Agency Ltd trading as Project 6. The contract, valued at £88,000, commenced on 31st March 2025 with a duration of 360 days. The procurement method employed was open procedure, adhering to the legal basis CELEX 32014L0024.
This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in social work and related services, particularly those experienced in providing support services for women addressing complex social issues such as substance misuse and domestic abuse. SMEs with expertise in guidance and counselling, social work services, and non-residential welfare services could find this project particularly well-suited. Engaging in such a contract can enhance a company's portfolio by demonstrating its capability to manage sensitive projects of substantial impact.
For firms capable of delivering integrated support across multiple domains, this contract offers an avenue for business growth and extended service delivery within the public sector.
Women who have previously had children removed are supported to make sustainable change to address the multiple and complex risks in their lives e.g., substance misuse, mental health, domestic abuse, parenting capacity, adverse childhood experiences and unsafe housing conditions. The objective is intervention at a point when women have no children in their care to support them to take control of their lives and develop new skills and responses.
Support for women who have had a child/children removed from their care, by the Local Authorities, sadly this could be for a number of reasons; failure on the mothers part to meet the child's basic physical and psychological needs which could be as a result of physical/sexual/emotional abuse, drug/alcohol misuse, abandonment, neglect, incarceration or for any other safeguarding concerns for the baby/child.
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