This service will provide high quality HIV support to adults over the age of 18 who are living with or affected by an HIV diagnosis. The service will provide several areas of support including physical and mental health, and equip service users with the knowledge and tools to best manage their diagnosis, relationships and wellbeing.
The ‘Core Offer’ will be comprised of:
Provision of support services covering physical and mental health, wellbeing, information and advice, training and knowledge and signposting.
All services need to be accessible for a wide range of service users and include a combination of online and face-to-face service provision from accessible locations within the boroughs of Camden and Islington.
Islington Council acting on behalf of Copenhagen and Vittoria Primary Schools invites suitable expressions of interest from suppliers for cleaning services to be provided at Copenhagen Primary School and Vittoria Primary School.
Copenhagen and Vittoria Primary Schools are part of the Islington Futures Federation. Both schools are based in North London, in the London borough of Islington. We are intending to appoint up to two contractors to provide cleaning services for both schools from January 2022. The schools are local authority maintained one form entry schools.
We are inviting companies to tender for the cleaning contract at one or both schools. Bidders may apply for one or more lots. Each lot will be awarded to one contractor. A single contractor may be awarded one or more lots. If a single contractor is awarded more than one lot, a single contract may be issued combining lots.
Requirements of the contracts include:
39 weeks per annum of term time of daily routine cleaning
5 weeks per annum of deep cleaning of the school (termly deep cleans with timings agreed)
1 x kitchen deep clean per annum with TR19 extraction hood cleaning certificates
Cleaning operatives will be required on site between 4pm and 8pm. This may also include locking up.
To provide affordable, fixed costs floor coverings to Islington Council’s Housing residents to prevent noise transference between properties but also offer a level of thermal insulation and a more comfortable environment. The cost of the carpeting will be re-charged to tenants over a five year period allowing new tenants the option of having carpets and underlay installed by the council for a fixed affordable weekly cost.
Islington Council and its partners are committed to the provision of excellent services to address domestic abuse. The domestic abuse refuge service will be critical in reducing the level and impact of domestic abuse in Islington by increasing the safety of survivors and their families.
This contract is for a domestic abuse refuge accommodation and support service commissioned by Islington Council. The new contract will require a successful bidder to have access to premises from the contract start date, that provides a secure and inclusive, welcoming community atmosphere.
The specification that is published with this contract opportunity provides details of the provision the council is seeking from the provider:
- The service will be designed to meet the specific needs of women escaping abuse and be inclusive to women self-identifying as transgender women. The refuge service will operate in women-only buildings and only employ women staff.
- The service will provide a safe place to stay for survivors and their children and will aim to address both practical and emotional needs of families.
- The service will provide women and their children with one to one and peer support aiming to enable families to cope with the trauma they’ve experienced, leave abusive relationships, regain their self-esteem and support them to begin rebuilding their life in safety and independence.
- The service will demonstrate anti-racist values through actions and accountability to survivors from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds based on collaboration, inclusivity, and intersectional representation.
- Islington Council and partners will work with the provider to develop the service to meet the needs of survivors and their families. To enable us to do this we require a service provider who is knowledgeable about the impact of violence against women and girls (VAWG) on diverse communities, experienced in delivering domestic abuse services and who will work innovatively to meet the needs of survivors and their families.
- The service provider will demonstrate a clear focus on utilising resources providing the greatest positive impact for survivors and their families.
- The service provider will demonstrate exceptional social value improving economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of survivors and their families.
Provision of community equipment to support independence, hospital discharge, and care at home for adults and children. Includes supply, maintenance, and collection of items.
Provision of community equipment to support independence, hospital discharge, and care at home for adults and children. Includes supply, maintenance, and collection of items.
Provision of community equipment to support independence, hospital discharge, and care at home for adults and children. Includes supply, maintenance, and collection of items.
Islington Council awarded a contract for the provision of a Housing Related Floating Support Service. The service supports vulnerable residents to maintain their tenancies and live independently, with a focus on early intervention, tenancy sustainment, and promoting independence. It includes a hospital discharge pathway and support for individuals under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), and is delivered using a person-centred, strength-based approach.
The nurse outreach service, funded through the Rough Sleeping Initiative, coordinates safe hospital discharges for patients with a history of rough sleeping and provides health checks within seven days for individuals booked into emergency accommodations.
This vital service offers flexible engagements with rough sleepers, providing support to access primary and secondary care, including joint outreach with the homeless outreach team and in-reach into hostels and Day Centres. The outreach nurse conducts health assessments, including assertive street outreach, supports individuals in accessing onward care, and is embedded within the wider rough sleeping multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This role addresses barriers to healthcare for homeless individuals, working to increase access and reduce emergency admissions.
The Mental Health Recovery Pathway service will provide a comprehensive and proactive mental health early intervention and prevention offer for adults in Islington. Through a range of community interventions, the service will deliver recovery-focused practical and emotional wellbeing support to build resilience and achieve positive outcomes with residents.
The council requires an IDVA service which will advise and support all survivors of domestic
abuse to meet their needs including health, autonomy, resilience, and stability. The IDVA
service will also work to improve the safety of survivors and their children and aim to prevent
further harm taking place.
The service will provide one-to-one support to survivors, co-ordinating multi agency provision
and providing practical solutions as well as emotional support, and will:
meet the needs of and provide services to all survivors, including LGBT and male survivors
demonstrate anti-racist values through actions and through accountability to Black, Asian
and minoritised survivors through accountability, collaboration, inclusivity, and
intersectional representation
demonstrate a clear focus on utilising resources providing the greatest positive impact for
survivors and their families
demonstrate exceptional social value improving economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of survivors and their families.
To enable us to do this we require a service provider who is knowledgeable about the impact of VAWG on diverse communities, experienced in delivering domestic abuse services and who will work innovatively to meet the needs of survivors.
Islington Council is seeking a supplier to supply draught alcoholic beverages, associated equipment and provide any maintenance associated with such equipment for a period of up to five (5) years to Islington Assembly Hall (the Venue), an 890-capacity venue located in the heart of central London.
Home care is a key component of Islington’s Adult Social Care vision to support residents to
live healthy, fulfilling and independent lives; maximising independence and connecting them
with their community, ensuring equality and fairness throughout.
Home Care, also known as Domiciliary Care, covers a wide range of activities, including but
not limited to, personal care; reablement; support with medication and household tasks to
support people with long-term care needs in the community. Residents may require these
services for a short period to recover from illness or injury for example, or for a longer period
to allow them to remain safe, independent and living in their own home.
Our ambitions for Home Care centres around four key areas:
• Improving outcomes for residents through a personalised, strengths-based approach that
maximises wellbeing and independence for all
• Ensuring capacity within high quality provision able to meet diverse needs and fluctuations
in demand
• Driving a more inclusive economy through fair pay and good conditions for the care
workforce; and community wealth building
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• Delivering greater value for money by better managing demand, preventing or delaying
escalation of need
To enable an integrated approach to home care, through locality-based provision the
borough will be divided three localities: North, South and Central.
As the value of the contract is above the threshold for wider advertising of the opportunity, a
Contract Notice will be published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (FTS).
This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations
2015 (the PCR). The procurement is subject to the ‘light-touch regime’ under Section 7
Social and Other Specific Services of Part 2 of the PCR. Under Regulation 76 the Council is
free to establish a procedure, provided that the procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance
with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service
providers) and is initiated by a contract notice. The Council has utilised the flexibility allowed
under the ‘light-touch regime’ to design a process that will ensure a robust assessment of
providers prior to being appointed to the framework agreement, and to allow flexibility
around procedures for placement of individual service users. The procedure the Council has
designed is based on the open procedure.
Practitioner required with specialist knowledge of health conditions (physical and mental health conditions), housing legislation, and the council’s Housing Allocation Scheme to provide assessments / advice in relation to council housing applications.
Lot 1a - A fully comprehensive sexual health system for STIs and contraception, across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Haringey and Islington was awarded to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) (contract award notice 2017/S 118-237654, published on OJEU 22/06/2017).
This notice explains modifications to the above contract.
Appointment of a principal contractor to deliver the Barnard Park improvements project that aims to make the park a better place for local residents and for the environment.
This service will provide high quality, inclusive early education and childcare to children under
five years old. Providers must have previous recent experience of delivering Ofsted-registered,
high quality early education and childcare to meet the minimum requirements for this tender and
will need to evidence this.
The provider will have a sound knowledge of working within the Early Years Foundation Stage
Framework and contribute to the outcomes as identified within the specification.
The provider will need to have a strong governance structure in place and a finance team which
is able to oversee and monitor the appropriate use of a complex set of funding streams from the
Council and Department for Education.
The provider will understand and adhere to all safeguarding and child protection requirements
as set out by the London Safeguarding Children’s Board and comply with local safeguarding
processes.
The provider will work closely with a variety of council officers, health and voluntary sector
partners in order to deliver the service, including (for example), Bright Start early childhood
multi-agency teams, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) team, safeguarding and
finance officers, and the Family Information Service (FIS). Multi-disciplinary working is essential
for delivering outcomes for children and their families