Tender: Assessment of Needs Tool and Integrated Digital Platform for Children at Risk of Deprivation of Liberty – Department for Education

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The Department for Education is seeking a supplier for a validated Assessment of Needs Tool and a secure, integrated digital platform to support three pilot areas testing an integrated systems intervention model for children at risk of deprivation of liberty. The model brings together children’s social care, health, youth justice, education and other partners to provide earlier, coordinated and evidence-based responses; the tool must give a whole-child picture of needs, risks, strengths and required support and inform multidisciplinary planning through the Home Again service to enable proactive, timely intervention. The platform must enable professionals to complete assessments, share information appropriately, run local reports on activity and outcomes, and generate anonymised aggregate data for national analysis so the combined solution strengthens systemwide understanding, supports commissioning and planning decisions, and informs practice models that keep CYP safe without unnecessary deprivation of liberty. The programme will also capture learning about the organisational, cultural, technical and commercial conditions that affect adoption, usability, sustainability and impact across children’s social care, health and youth justice settings. The DfE encourages participation from SMEs and VCSEs and will consider consortia and collaborative bids from all types of organisations.