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    Strategic Grant - Emotional Support to Prisoners in Distress or Crisis

    Pleases note this is for Market Engagement only. The competition will be launched later in the Autumn. HMPPS is conducting a market questionnaire to understand if there are suppliers who would be interested in delivering the Emotional Support to Prisoners in Distress and Postvention Service for Prisons Experiencing Self-Inflicted Deaths requirement. During 2023, around 1500 people in prison were trained as peer supporters (known as Listeners) in 100 prisons in England and Wales and provided confidential support to their fellow prisoners in distress on more than 48,000 occasions, amounting to over 27,000 hours of support. These peer supporters also responded to 43 self-inflicted deaths, offering emotional support following a suicide to 2,675 fellow prisoners in the prisons concerned

    Opening date 9 Aug 2024, 12:00PM

    Closing date 6 Sep 2024, 05:00PM

    Purpose

    The purpose of the grant is to:

     Provide emotional support to prisoners throughout their time in custody, including on first reception.

    ·       Support and help prisoners who are at risk of self-harm, suicide or experiencing other forms of crisis to find alternative routes through their distress. 

    ·       Provide emotional  face to face and through peer support as far as possible

    ·       Train and support individuals who are providing emotional support to prisoners

    ·       Improve safer custody policy and practice by:

    -          Providing expertise, knowledge and tools to prisons and prison staff;

    -          Sharing learning with prison establishments to enhance understanding of prisoners’ needs at times of emotional distress;

    -          Providing anonymised information about the service (which does not breach any confidentiality of the support) to prisons and at national level, to assist the wider safer custody agenda;

    ·       Provide evidence and evaluation of the impacts of the emotional support provided; and

    ·       Provide a postvention service to prisons, including a proactive offer of support to prisoners, as well as information for staff and prisoners and guidance for Governors and other managers.

    The Ministry of Justice is currently running a Market Engagement exercise to help inform the development of the requirements before any competition is launched.**The budget and Grant term have not yet been confirmed.**If you are not registered on Jaggaer, follow this link https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk and find the ‘Click here to register’ icon.The Market Engagement questionnaire reference is PQQ_440 Market Engagement Questionaire- Strategic Grant- Emotional Support to Pirsoners in Distress or Crisis. (To note, this is not a selection exercise for the upcoming recompete of the Strategic Grant- Emotional Support to Pirsoners in Distress or Crisis for Small and Medium SME's in the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. We are using this method to reach as many potential bidders as we possibly can).

    See PQQ_440 Market Engagement Questionaire

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    This is for a Market Engagement exercise only.

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