Tender: Recommissioning Missing Children and Independent Return Home Conversation Service – Buckinghamshire Council

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Buckinghamshire Council is seeking a supplier for the recommissioning of its Missing Children and Independent Return Home Conversation Service. The Service will provide independent Return Home Conversations, normally within 72 hours of a child's return, for eligible Buckinghamshire children and young people aged 10 to 17 inclusive following a missing episode, including Buckinghamshire children looked after who are placed outside the county. The provider will identify safeguarding concerns, exploitation, unmet needs and factors contributing to missing behaviour, support the identification and implementation of actions to improve safety and reduce repeat missing episodes, and provide Missing Interventions for children experiencing repeat or persistent missing episodes, emerging vulnerabilities or unmet needs. The provider must work within a multi-agency framework, use information gathered through delivery to inform safeguarding, prevention, contextual safeguarding, disruption activity, strategic insight and partnership responses, and be responsible for delivering or securing out-of-county Return Home Conversations including directly delivering conversations where appropriate and managing and quality assuring any subcontracted or host local authority arrangements. The contract has an initial term of three years with the option to extend for up to two further one-year periods, giving a maximum potential term of five years.