Adoption Tees Valley - Approved Specialist Assessment and Therapeutic Services Providers Framework

Completion of Standard Selection Questionnaire and Award Questionnaire. The Specialist Assessment must be eligible for funding from the ASF and must meet all of the criteria below, for the purposes of this service, as commissioned by Adoption Tees Valley: -Provision of an in-depth specialist assessment of the child and family’s needs, with a focus on trauma and attachment, and how this demonstrates the links to the assessment of support needs. -The specialist assessment must be led and undertaken by a qualified clinician. This will be someone who diagnoses and treats “patients”; is suitably qualified and is licensed to practice via HCPC, and is a Clinical Psychologist, or Attachment Psychotherapist. -The clinician undertaking the specialist assessment must access professional clinical supervision, in relation to the assessment, at least 2 x over the duration of the assessment, from a suitably qualified clinician, who is either a psychologist, or an attachment psychotherapist. -The specialist assessment must result in a therapeutic support plan for the child and family. -The price for the specialist assessment must be within the fair access limit of 2,500 GBP, inclusive of all costs and VAT.

Completion of Standard Selection Questionnaire and Award Questionnaire. The service is the provision of a therapeutic intervention with either the child, and/or family with a focus on trauma and attachment. The therapeutic intervention will be delivered over a series of sessions and will be geared towards helping to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children. It is recognised that there are a range of interventions that providers may be qualified and experienced to deliver. Adoption Tees Valley wishes to procure a range of therapies, in order to maximise the accessibility and availability of suitable therapeutic interventions according to the child and families’ needs. The therapeutic model must be eligible for funding from the Adoption Support Fund, up to the fair access limit of 5,000 GBP per child, inclusive of all costs and VAT. Therapies eligible for funding include, but are not limited to: -Play therapy -Individual psychotherapy -Group therapy -Family therapy -Behaviour modification -Cognitive therapy -Trauma Attachment focussed therapy -Creative arts therapies -Sensory integration & Sensory attachment therapies -Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) -Multi systemic therapy -Filial therapy (both the Guerney & PTUK models) -Non-violent resistance -Dyadic Development Psychotherapy -Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing Therapy The following link to the Adoption Support Fund website provides latest information on which therapies are or are not funded by the ASF. https://www.adoptionuk.org/Pages/FAQs/Category/adoption-support-fund