Published date: 5 January 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 1 September 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£105,000

Procurement reference

NP0032

Published date

5 January 2023

Closing date

1 September 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

7 November 2022

Contract end date

6 November 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Direct Award

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) is one of eighteen areas that have secured funding from the Home Office to develop a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and commission services to deliver interventions that reduce serious violence. The Northumbria VRU uses a Public Health Approach to tackle violent crime by working collaboratively with police, local government, health agencies, education representatives and other community representatives to address the underlying causes of serious violence.

The VRU recognises the need for earlier intervention to strengthen the co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse. Families, friends and community members are usually the first to know, and often the best placed to offer support, if someone they know is being controlled, scared or hurt by a partner or family member.

The VRU is therefore seeking to match fund the Findaway Project to enable it to work across Northumbria to fill a current gap in the community response to domestic abuse. The service is not aimed at victims or perpetrators as there are already services in place providing that support - instead it is aimed at those informal networks who are close to the victim or the person who is causing the harm. Findaway seeks to equip families, friends and communities with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support the people they care about.

Award information

Awarded date

28 September 2022

Contract start date

7 November 2022

Contract end date

6 November 2025

Total value of contract

£105,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Wearside Women in Need

Address

28 Bridge House, Sunderland, SR1 1TE

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Liam Shuttleworth

Address

Forth Banks
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE13PH
England

Telephone

447736463090

Email

liam.shuttleworth@northumbria.police.uk