South London Child Sexual Abuse Therapeutic Service

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  "date": "2026-07-15T14:57:18+01:00",
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          "description": "The contract for the Service will be awarded for an initial period of 1 year (12 months), with the option to extend for two further periods of 1 year (12 months) each, at the sole discretion of the relevant authority. Therefore, the maximum duration of this contract, if both extension options are taken up, will be up to 3 years (36 months)."
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        "description": "The notice relates to the South London Child Sexual Abuse Therapeutic Service.\nThe process being followed is a Most Suitable Provider Process under the Provider Selection Regime 2023 under the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) process (The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 10).\nThe commissioner is seeking to achieve, via this route, a service and provider that is committed to supporting the development of CSA services and pathways, as well as direct service provision for clinically led and trauma‑informed therapeutic interventions for children and young people.\nThe provider must demonstrate a proven track record of five years working in partnership with stakeholders relevant to the service.\nThe provider must be able to demonstrate robust structures to deliver the service specification, as well as the clinical and trauma‑informed expertise to support child victims of sexual abuse.\nThe provider must be able to demonstrate relevant staffing and infrastructure to mobilise imminently.\nContract details:\n- Under this contract, the provider will be expected to deliver the service specification within the financial envelope available.\n- The contract will be a block contract.\n- The contract for the Service will be awarded for an initial period of 1 year (12 months), with the option to extend for two further periods of 1 year (12 months) each, at the sole discretion of the relevant authority. Therefore, the maximum duration of this contract, if both extension options are taken up, will be up to 3 years (36 months).\n- Annual contract value: £370,000.\nReferral Pathway:\nThe service will be available to CYP aged 4-24 with interventions tailored to developmental stage. Access will be based on clinical assessment, safeguarding considerations and presenting need, rather than diagnostic thresholds.\nAccess will follow a no wrong door approach, enabling referrals from statutory services, education, health and voluntary sector partners, alongside agreed self-referral or family referral routes.\n• Accepted referral sources\nThe commissioned service will accept referrals from appropriate statutory and non-statutory safeguarding and support agencies, including social care, education, health services, Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), and voluntary sector partners, in line with local safeguarding pathways. Self or family referrals may also refer directly.\n• Consent and parental involvement requirements\nThe service will require providers to operate a developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed consent framework, ensuring that the voice and wishes of the child or young person are central to engagement in the service.\nProviders will be required to:\n• obtain informed consent from the child or young person where they are Gillick competent, or provide age-appropriate assent and consent processes where relevant;\n• implement clear, age-appropriate service agreements that set out confidentiality boundaries, including circumstances in which information must be shared for safeguarding reasons;\n• include non-abusing parents or safe adults in assessment and therapeutic processes where clinically appropriate to support engagement, recovery and system stability;\n• identify and involve safe, non-abusive caregivers or significant adults as part of a holistic, systemic approach where this supports therapeutic outcomes;\n• ensure that family involvement is determined through clinical assessment, safeguarding considerations and the wishes of the child or young person.\nThe service will operate within a systemic, whole-family and contextual approach, recognising the role of family, carers and wider systems (including school and community networks) in supporting recovery and sustained wellbeing.\nSafeguarding and confidentiality arrangements will be clearly communicated in developmentally appropriate formats and embedded within service agreements, including clarity on when information may need to be shared with other professionals or safeguarding partners.\nPatient Admission Criteria\nThe commissioned service will operate a structured, multi-factor prioritisation and triage model to ensure timely, safe and clinically appropriate allocation of children and young people referred into the service. This will include a thorough and consistent referral and assessment process, clinical oversight of the service waitlist and throughout service engagement.\nThe service specification will require providers to demonstrate a multi-modal, trauma-informed therapeutic workforce capable of delivering a range of evidence-informed interventions appropriate to the complexity and developmental needs of children and young people affected by sexual abuse and rape.\nThis will include access to appropriately trained practitioners able to deliver:\n• Evidence-based psychological interventions, including CBT-informed approaches delivered by suitably qualified practitioners (e.g. clinicians with training aligned to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies / cognitive behavioural models where appropriate for CYP contexts);\n• Specialist mental health nursing input, supporting structured clinical assessment, formulation and intervention where clinically indicated;\n• Creative and developmentally appropriate therapeutic modalities, including play therapy, arts-based approaches and integrative counselling tailored to children and young people;\n• Trauma-specific expertise, including practitioners with specialist training in domestic abuse, childhood sexual abuse and complex trauma;\n• System-focused practice, including safeguarding coordination, multi-agency system navigation, consultation and liaison with partner agencies;\n• Family-informed and systemic interventions, where clinically appropriate and safe, to support recovery, relational stability and sustained impact of therapeutic work.\nProviders will be expected to allocate cases according to clinical complexity, modality suitability and practitioner expertise.\n• Safeguarding weighting within triage\nThe service specification will require providers to embed safeguarding as a central determinant within triage and prioritisation decision-making.\nThis will include:\n• structured risk assessment at point of referral, incorporating trauma history, safeguarding concerns, current risk presentation and active seeking of further referral information when necessary;\n• weighting of safeguarding factors within prioritisation decisions to ensure safe allocation of cases;\n• allocation of higher-risk presentations only where appropriate stabilisation and external safeguarding support is in place;\n• ongoing monitoring of risk during waiting periods and throughout engagement with the service.\nThe commissioned service will be required to maintain active oversight of children and young people awaiting allocation, including:\n• clinical risk monitoring during waiting periods, undertaken by appropriately trained practitioners;\n• regular wellbeing check-ins to maintain engagement, assess changing need and identify emerging risk;\n• enhanced monitoring for higher-risk presentations, including periodic welfare contact where clinically indicated;\n• escalation of safeguarding concerns identified during waiting periods to appropriate statutory partners where necessary. Additional information: This notice is linked to the Find a Tender notice published under reference 2026/S 000-044496, available at: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/044496-2026",
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    "description": "NHS England - London (hereafter referred to as \"the Authority\") is seeking to commission the South London Child Sexual Abuse Therapeutic Service, a specialist therapeutic service for children and young people who are victims of sexual abuse. The service will cover the 12 South London Boroughs across the SEL and SWL ICB regions, supporting a population that has historically been underserved by such provision. It will deliver clinically led, trauma-informed therapeutic interventions, including support for CSA service and pathway development, direct therapeutic provision, partnership working with relevant stakeholders, and mobilisation of the staffing and infrastructure required to deliver the service specification.\nThis notice is an intention to award a contract under the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) process (The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 10).\nThe annual contract value is £370,000.\nThe contract for the Service will be awarded for an initial period of 1 year (12 months), with the option to extend for two further periods of 1 year (12 months) each, at the sole discretion of the relevant authority. Therefore, the maximum duration of this contract, if both extension options are taken up, will be up to 3 years (36 months).",
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  "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 28/07/2026. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.\nWritten representations should be sent to: hub.psrrepresentation@nhs.net\nDecision Makers:\nThe award decision was made by NHS England (London region).\nRelative Importance of Key Criteria:\nThe following key criteria were applied in the assessment of the provider:\n- Quality and Innovation - 20%\n- Value - 20%\n- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - 20%\n- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - 30%\n- Social Value - 10%\nRationale for the Relative Importance of the Key Criteria:\nThe relative importance of the key criteria reflects the Authority's statutory duties and commissioning priorities under the Provider Selection Regime, including securing safe, high-quality, and effective healthcare services; improving access for children and young people who are victims of sexual abuse; reducing inequalities across the 12 South London Boroughs and SEL and SWL ICB regions; and ensuring service continuity, integration with existing pathways, and value for money for the South London Child Sexual Abuse Therapeutic Service.\nRationale for Choosing the Provider:\nThe provider met the basic selection criteria in accordance with Regulation 19 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 by achieving a pass. The provider also passed the assessment of exclusions (Exclusion Grounds - Grounds for Mandatory Exclusion and Exclusion Grounds - Grounds for Discretionary Exclusion) in line with Regulation 20 of the PSR. In addition, the provider achieved the required standard against the five key criteria.\nConflicts of Interest:\nNo conflicts of interest were declared.",
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