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Award of Family Support Packages to Multiple Providers by Dorset Council

Awarded 31 Mar 2020

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Awarded 31 Mar 2020Expired 30 Mar 2021

Dorset Council awarded a contract to Purbeck Youth and Community Foundation, Home-Start West Dorset, Magdalen, Mosaic, Future Roots Ltd, Shelter, Dorset Mind, TheHorseCourse, Relate Dorset & South Wiltshire, Tracey Lincoln Play Therapy, and Citizens A for Family Support Packages, valued at £400,000.

These packages are small-scale services, activities, or interventions that practitioners can quickly and easily utilise to support families, including access to training opportunities, family or individual therapy or counselling, farm and animal-based activity and therapeutic approaches, day trips, family activities, and interview training.

The packages are primarily for one-to-one sessions with individuals or individual family groups, delivered on a demand-led basis, and must contribute to at least one of Dorset's desired outcomes for residents, either directly delivering or contributing to the achievement of outcomes for whole families.

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