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Liverpool City Council

Therapeutic Service to Reduce the Impact of Poor Parental Mental Health

Business ServicesCPV 85121270
Value£396,562
Awarded19 Apr 2026
Published1 May 2026
RegionNationwide

£396,562 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
WILKS FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY LTD
Awarded value£397k
Award date19 Apr 2026

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
commercialprocurement@liverpool.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£397ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Provider will complete a comprehensive triage of referrals made by Liverpool City Council to ensure the clients meet the criteria for the service, identifying 32 families who are on a trajectory to have their children removed by the Courts.

The service will provide trained mental health practitioners and psychologists who will complete intensive interventions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of parents who are unable to meet the needs of their children.

The practitioners will support the parents until professionals are satisfied that the risks to the children have reduced significantly enough to halt the progression to court/remove Child Protection plan.

The contract will start on the 29/04/26, expire on 30/04/27 and has a contract value of £396,562 excluding VAT following the Direct Award Process C in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime 2023.

The provider will consider the most appropriate delivery method on a case-by-case basis.

Individual plans that respond to the needs of the family will be put in place and the provider will deliver the service to respond to the plan that is put in place.

The service will deliver intensive therapeutic interventions, either in the family home, therapy room or virtually.

The decision about how the interventions are delivered will be informed by the views of the service and the preferences of the family.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Provider will complete a comprehensive triage

The Provider will complete a comprehensive triage of referrals made by Liverpool City Council to ensure the clients meet the criteria for the service, identifying 32 families who are on a trajectory to have their children removed by the Courts.

02

The service will provide trained mental health

The service will provide trained mental health practitioners and psychologists who will complete intensive interventions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of parents who are unable to meet the needs of their children.

03

The practitioners will support the parents until

The practitioners will support the parents until professionals are satisfied that the risks to the children have reduced significantly enough to halt the progression to court/remove Child Protection plan.

04

Individual plans that respond to the needs

Individual plans that respond to the needs of the family will be put in place and the provider will deliver the service to respond to the plan that is put in place.

05

The service will deliver intensive therapeutic interventions

The service will deliver intensive therapeutic interventions, either in the family home, therapy room or virtually.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067995
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
040352-2026
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