2122-0032-C Youth Services at Lift and Rose Bowl sites

Service 1: Deliver a youth work offer from Lift and Rose Bowl

• Develop, deliver and host a high quality, innovative and interconnected programme of

youth work activities, spaces and multi-agency support services for young people's

development.

• Provide significant additional social value, e.g. to support young people’s employment.
• Work closely with the other providers and three locality networks to shape and support the

delivery of high quality youth work across the borough, in line with the identified needs.

• Develop a close working relationship with Targeted Youth Support (TYS) and other

Children’s Services departments to ensure that disengaged and more at risk young people

receive the support they need at Lift and Rose Bowl.

• Be an ‘outward facing’ provision, which assertively seeks to engage young people who have

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not previously been reached by the universal youth work offer, through working with locality

networks and other community and grassroots groups.

• Deliver the Summerversity, Launchpad and Emotional Wellbeing Services.

Service 2: Deliver a social prescribing offer for young people linked to the youth work offer

• Build on the learnings from the pilot phase of the service, identify features of an effective

social prescribing model to meet the wellbeing needs of young people within the 11-25 age

range, intervening at the earliest point, and focusing on young people living with long-term or

physical health conditions and/or Special Educational Needs.

• Adopt a flexible approach to targeting the service according to the recognised need locally.

This may involve expanding or altering referral partners as the service develops.

• Signpost referrals from clinical mental health services appropriately and provide for unmet

need through a non-clinical pathway focused around social and emotional wellness and

prevention of mental ill-health.

• Continue to promote understanding and support for social prescribing approaches to mild

to moderate mental health needs among referring organisations, such as the importance of

wellbeing conversations.

• Embed the service within the community, including informing and participating in the

Locality Youth Networks to work collaboratively with other stakeholders.

Service 1: Total annual contract budget is £590,000, equating to a total maximum contract

budget of £4,130,000 should all extensions be implemented.

Service 2: Total annual contract budget is £70,000. Funding is currently secured until 31

January 2023 (the first year of service delivery), with the expectation to extend a further six (6) x 12 months, subject to funding availability. This equates to a maximum contract budget of £490,000 should all extensions be implemented.

This contract is being procured under the Light Touch regime under Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services of Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under Regulation 76 the Council is free to establish a procedure, provided that procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers) and is initiated by a contract notice. However what the Council has designed is essentially the Open Procedure but with the potential for negotiation at the end, similar to the Competitive procedure with negotiation.