Tender: Repeat Care Proceedings Prevention Service for Parents – Nottingham City Council

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Nottingham City Council is seeking a supplier to deliver a trauma-informed, relationship-based programme of sustained support for parents who have experienced the removal of a child through care proceedings. The service will provide 12 to 18 months of one-to-one practitioner support, home and community outreach, flexible accessible appointments including evenings, and coordination with relevant agencies to improve parental wellbeing, emotional resilience and stability, reduce exposure to domestic abuse and reliance on crisis services, and help prevent repeat care proceedings and further child removals. Support must be available to mothers, fathers, partners and, where safe and appropriate, non-resident parents, and may include helping parents to maintain or develop positive relationships with their children consistent with permanence arrangements. The contract is expected to start on 1 April 2027 for an initial three-year term with two optional one-year extensions (maximum five years) and an estimated total value of £1,500,000 excluding VAT over the maximum term. Tender responses will be rejected if the pricing schedule is not submitted, if the total annual cost exceeds £300,000, or if the submitted costs do not allocate at least 50% of the total contract cost to frontline staff.