Market Engagement Event - Provision of Supervised Family Time Contact Services
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The Bradford Children & Families Trust has announced a planning stage for a public procurement process regarding the provision of supervised family time contact services. This initiative is aimed at enhancing the service for children in care, ensuring meaningful family interactions. The market engagement event is scheduled for 22nd October 2025 via MS Teams, and interested parties should register by emailing the Trust.
The contract is set to begin on 1st April 2026 and will run until 31st March 2034. This procurement falls under the industry categories of social services and social work services, with a focus on the Yorkshire and the Humber region, particularly Bradford. The budget for the contract is approximately £1,800,000, with a gross amount of £2,600,000, and it qualifies as an above-threshold service under the special "light touch" regime.
Businesses specializing in social services, particularly those offering specialised social work services, are well-positioned to participate in this tender. This contract presents a substantial opportunity for growth, with a nine-year duration and a significant budget. Companies that are experienced in providing high-quality supervised family interactions, potentially including SMEs and voluntary community social enterprises (VCSEs), are encouraged to engage in the procurement process.
The engagement event is an invaluable opportunity for businesses to understand the requirements and establish a foothold in a promising service area within the public sector, fostering positive long-term relationships with a public authority.
Bradford Children and Families Trust (the Trust) was established to stabilise, recover, and improve children's services under new leadership - accountable to, but operationally independent from Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that children in care, or those subject to care proceedings, have meaningful and appropriate opportunities for family time with their family members and other significant individuals in their lives. The Children Act 1989, Schedule 2 Paragraph 15, sets out our duty to promote contact (family time) between children in care and their parents, others with parental responsibility for them, their relatives and friends, and other significant people.
Bradford Children and Families Trust's Family Time Team is committed to ensuring that children in care or children subject to care proceedings have consistent and high-quality family time with family members and significant people in their lives, in a family-friendly venue. It is essential that Supervised Family Time sessions are facilitated by an appropriately qualified, experienced and supportive family time contact supervisor who has a caring manner, actively listens to the voices of the child or young person and their family, ensuring that the sessions are enjoyable and foster positive lifelong memories. Further to the event held in November 2024, the Trust would like to invite potential providers to attend a final market engagement event on 22nd October 2025, 12.30-13.30 on MS Teams, ahead of the publication of the tender To register for this event please email: ChildrensCommissioning@bradford.gov.uk using the title Market Engagement Event - Provision of Supervised Family Time Contact Services in the subject matter.
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