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```json { "overview": "NHS England is looking for a specialist organisation to run a therapeutic service for children and young people aged 4-24 in South London who have experienced sexual abuse or rape. The service will provide trauma-informed therapy, safeguarding support, and help families navigate the system. It covers 12 South London boroughs and will be funded at £370,000 per year for up to 3 years.", "requirements": [ "Proven track record of at least 5 years working in partnership with relevant stakeholders in child safeguarding and therapeutic services", "Demonstrated clinical and trauma-informed expertise in supporting child victims of sexual abuse", "Robust organisational structures capable of delivering the full service specification", "Ability to mobilise and start delivering the service quickly with existing staffing and infrastructure", "Staff trained in evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. CBT approaches for young people)", "Access to specialist mental health nursing staff capable of clinical assessment and intervention", "Practitioners with specialist training in childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse and complex trauma", "Ability to deliver creative and developmentally appropriate therapies (play therapy, arts-based approaches, counselling)", "System-focused practice capability including safeguarding coordination and multi-agency liaison", "Family-informed and systemic intervention expertise where clinically appropriate", "Ability to operate within a trauma-informed consent and confidentiality framework appropriate to children's developmental stages", "Capability to implement structured triage and risk assessment processes with clinical oversight", "Located in or able to serve one of the 12 South London boroughs and accessible across the entire region", "Ability to work within MSP (Most Suitable Provider) process under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023" ], "key_tasks": [ "Deliver specialist assessment of children and young people (aged 4-24) who have experienced sexual trauma or abuse", "Provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions including CBT-informed approaches tailored to developmental stage", "Deliver specialist mental health nursing assessments and clinical interventions for complex presentations", "Deliver creative therapies including play therapy, arts-based approaches and integrative counselling suitable for young people", "Provide safeguarding coordination and support embedded within therapeutic pathways (not as separate process)", "Conduct multi-factor triage and prioritisation of referrals incorporating structured risk assessment and safeguarding weighting", "Provide system navigation support helping families engage with statutory services, education, health and justice agencies", "Support non-abusing parents, carers and safe adults in assessment and therapeutic processes where clinically appropriate", "Maintain active clinical oversight of children awaiting allocation, including regular wellbeing check-ins and risk monitoring during waiting periods", "Accept and process referrals from social care, education, health, SARCs (Sexual Assault Referral Centres), voluntary sector and direct self/family referrals", "Operate a developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed consent framework with clear confidentiality boundaries communicated in age-appropriate formats", "Escalate safeguarding concerns to statutory partners where necessary during waiting periods and service engagement", "Provide consultation and liaison with partners including children's social care, safeguarding partnerships, CAMHS, education settings and criminal justice agencies", "Work within a whole-family and contextual approach recognising the role of family, carers and wider systems in supporting recovery" ], "how_to_read": [ "This is an MSP (Most Suitable Provider) contract, not a standard competitive tender. NHS England is selecting one provider they judge as most suitable rather than running open competition. Check the full tender documents to understand the selection criteria and how you'll be assessed against the 'most suitable' test.", "The contract value is £370,000 per year for a 1+1+1 structure (one year with two optional one-year extensions). This means the NHS can end the contract after year one if unhappy, so early performance matters. Budget planning should assume only year one is guaranteed.", "The phrase 'block contract' means you receive a set fee (£370,000) regardless of how many children you see or sessions you deliver. This is different from payment-per-patient or activity-based pricing, so you need to carefully forecast demand and costs upfront.", "Safeguarding is described as 'core and continuous' and 'not separate or sequential'. This means it's not a checkbox at the start — it runs throughout all therapy. Understand that your safeguarding procedures and clinical practice are inseparable. Complex safeguarding cases may require you to pause therapy and escalate to statutory partners.", "The 'no wrong door' and multi-source referral approach means you'll receive referrals from 6+ different partner organisations (social care, education, health, SARCs, voluntary sector, plus self-referrals). You need clear, fast processes to accept and triage these quickly. Delays in accepting referrals will be visible across the system.", "Look carefully at the triage and waiting list management section. The NHS expects you to actively monitor children waiting for allocation, conduct regular wellbeing check-ins, and escalate safety concerns — this

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