Tender: Professional Actors for Family Liaison Officer Training – HMPPS (Newbold Revel)

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His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is seeking a supplier to provide two professional actors to support delivery of Family Liaison Officer (FLO) training by Prison Learning Design and Delivery, portraying a prisoner's next of kin during assessment scenarios. The actors will attend in-person on days 3 and 4 of the four-day FLO course, typically held at the Prison Service College, Newbold Revel, receive a scenario brief (relationship, emotions, religion and background) with no fixed script, adapt responses in real time, and give feedback from the next-of-kin perspective after each exercise. The requirement is two actors across two days per course, with a current expectation of one course per month and scope for up to four additional ad-hoc courses per year (volumes not guaranteed); a minimum of one month's notice will be provided for each course and the Authority tends to plan nine months ahead. Each assessment day typically includes five scenarios split evenly between the two actors, each scenario lasting about 30 minutes (20 minutes role-play and 10 minutes feedback). Actors must have experience in role play, simulation or scenario-based acting involving emotionally sensitive material. Full tender documentation and submission instructions will be available when the Invitation to Tender (ITT) is formally launched.