Provision of services relating to the Development of a Child Abuse Questionnaire and Safeguarding Procedure

Concepts

• survey services
• south wales
• ons
• development of a child abuse questionnaire
• current prevalence of child abuse
• provision of services
• development of an appropriate safeguarding procedure
• appropriate level of safeguarding
• safeguarding procedure
• qualitative research

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

The ONS is assessing the feasibility of a survey measuring the current prevalence of child abuse in the UK. We published an article in January 2021 outlining our proposals for what a survey should look like, such as the survey coverage and methodology. Following conducting a large public consultation and further qualitative research, we concluded that there was no fundamental reason not to conduct a pilot. The next stage of this work requires the development of an appropriate safeguarding procedure and questionnaire. The main aims of this research are to: *develop two questionnaires to capture the current prevalence of child abuse, which will be asked of two different participant groups; children aged 11 to 17 years and adults aged 18 to 25 years (with the survey for children aged 11-15 taking place in schools) *design a safeguarding procedure, which will assess the current level of risk to the participant and apply the appropriate level of safeguarding

Total Quantity or Scope

We published an article (link below) in January 2021 outlining our proposals for what a survey should look like, such as the survey coverage and methodology. Following conducting a large public consultation (link below) and further qualitative research, we concluded (link below) that there was no fundamental reason not to conduct a pilot. … The main aims of this research are to: *develop two questionnaires to capture the current prevalence of child abuse, which will be asked of two different participant groups; children aged 11 to 17 years and adults aged 18 to 25 years (with the survey for children aged 11-15 taking place in schools) *design a safeguarding procedure, which will assess the current level of risk to the participant and apply the appropriate level of safeguarding https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/exp... https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/exp... https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/child-abuse-survey-consultatio...

CPV Codes

• 79311000 - Survey services
• 79311100 - Survey design services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Office for National Statistics (ONS) envisage conducting a 1 stage procurement for this requirement. Further details will follow in the contract notice, however, suppliers will need to register on the e-tendering portal here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home to participate in the future procurement. Please register on ONS's e-tendering portal - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home. At this time ONS are looking to engage with prospective suppliers to gauge the level of expertise/previous experience in questionnaire development in this sensitive area. This engagement will be used to help ONS build and structure the statement of requirements to be used for the procurement. You will then be able to 'express an interest' in this project (search for the appropriate tender - Development of a child abuse questionnaire and safeguarding procedure under 'Current Tenders'). When you have expressed an interest, please send correspondence indicating if you can meet the essential criteria outlined below, to allow ONS to have an understanding of what your company can offer. We will then schedule follow-up one-to-one sessions where we can discuss further. Essential criteria *Expertise/previous experience in this sensitive topic area or connections with those that do *Expertise/previous experience in survey and questionnaire development and testing