Glasgow City Council - Framework for Education Services Embedded Mental Health and Wellbeing

Glasgow City Council (GCC) is seeking organisations to provide Mental Health and Wellbeing Support in Schools, specifically organisations who are skilled in working with children and young people and supporting their mental health and wellbeing through a range of interventions and training.

This will vary depending on the age/stage and the support will take the form of one-to-one support, staff development/training and family support - note: this list is not exhaustive. GCC are seeking a number of organisations to provide this support in our Primary and Secondary Schools.

GCC are not seeking trained Counsellors, but rather mental health practitioners or staff trained in youth work (depending on age/stage). The organisations must be able to supply suitably qualified workers who are embedded in the school community between 1-5 days per school week throughout the school year.

As part of this agreement there may be a potential collaboration opportunity with other Local Authorities.

Categories are as follows;

1. Family Support linked to schools, working with parents / carers to help support their children. Linked to this there may be Professional Learning and Development Training delivered through schools, linked to Mental Health, promoting resilience and wellbeing for staff working with children and young people
2. Advice, Support and Therapeutic Services to Children and Young People (Evidenced based interventions but not including One to One Counselling). Linked to this there may be Professional Learning and Development Training delivered through schools, linked to Mental Health, promoting resilience and wellbeing for staff working with children and young people
3. Creative Engagement with children and young people. Linked to this there may be Professional Learning and Development Training delivered through schools, linked to Mental Health, promoting resilience and wellbeing for staff working with children and young people
4. Sport / Physical Activity / Outdoor Education
5. Mentoring /Youth Work for young people including External Tutors / Additional Support. Linked to this there may be Professional Learning and Development Training delivered through schools, linked to Mental Health, promoting resilience and wellbeing for staff working with children and young people
6. Group Work for children and young people focussing on promoting positive mental health, resilience, and wellbeing.

The framework for Embedded Mental Health and Wellbeing opportunity will go live at the end of January 2024, to record your interest, please click here to access the Prior information notice on PCS.

During this webinar, our SDP expert trainer will show you- as a bidder that is interested in this contract, how to register/ login to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS), and search for this contract notice. We will then follow the buyer instruction verbatim, to record an interest and access the tender documents, spending time on the Single Procurement Document (SPD), plus access all of the Buyer attachments. We will also explain how to use the Q&A functionality, which is the way to communicate with the buyer during the tender process and demonstrate how to upload attachments into PCS.

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