SAFE Birmingham Taskforce Track 2 Interventions - Mentoring

Concepts

• birmingham
• earlier intervention
• safe birmingham taskforce
• safe
• track
• interventions
• taskforce
• mentoring
• intervention
• mainstream secondary schools

Location

Description

Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed (SAFE) is a schools-led response to serious youth violence, focused on providing earlier intervention in mainstream secondary schools. It is aligned with the expectations placed upon Schools, Academy trusts, governing bodies, and local authorities by the Working Together to Improve School Attendance guidance. The aims of the SAFE programme are to: - Improve socio-emotional regulation and wellbeing - Improve behaviour within schools and the local area - Improve school attendance - Reduce vulnerability to, and involvement in, serious violence The expected outputs from the award of these contracts will be: - Mentoring services for 36 secondary schools with a minimum of 620 referrals - Weekly (term time) mentoring for a minimum of 6 months per referral (two terms) alongside complementary afterschool and school holiday activity. Expected outcomes from the Services are: - Improvements in behaviour of young people - Improvements in socio-emotional wellbeing - Improvements in / stabilisation of attendance

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• None found

Legal Justification

This direct award is justified as a Special Case Under Schedule 5 Direct Awards of PA2023 under clause 7 in relation to Additional or repeat goods, services or works -5 The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier which are intended as an extension to, or partial replacement of, existing goods, services or works in circumstances where- (a) a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from, or incompatible with, the existing goods, services or works, and (b) the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance A change of supplier would result in services being different from those provided by the existing supplier. Suppliers were matched with schools in 2023 and have been onboarded with school values, staff structure, policies, procedures and systems and their delivery and methodology has been adapted overtime to deliver against them. A change in supplier would result in a requirement for extended supplier training, stakeholder management and mobilisation to end users, disproportionate to that needed to continue the service.

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