Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bea-94b7-7380-8322-bd2406758a28/emotional-health-wellbeing-service-for-looked-after-children-and-care-leavers closed GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service For Looked After Children and Care Leavers [Wigan Council](https://tendernation.io/buyers/wigan-council) Estimated value Not stated Published 18 Sept 2026 Deadline Closed 16 Oct 2026 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Buyer says suitable for VCSEs The buyer ticked “suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises” on the notice. - Open procedure Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender Wigan Council is seeking to appoint a provider to deliver an Emotional and Mental Health Service for Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers. The service will provide flexible, evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic and preventative support to children and young people in care, care leavers and their carers. Interventions will include a range of psychological and therapeutic approaches, individual and group work, therapeutic parenting support, psychological consultation and formulation, systemic and dyadic approaches, assessments and evidence-based parenting programmes. The service will work closely with Wigan Council's social care teams to improve the mental health, emotional wellbeing and resilience of children and young people, support carers and foster carers, prevent escalation to more specialist services, and promote placement stability and permanence. A key focus will be ensuring that support is responsive and tailored to the individual needs and circumstances of children, young people and their carers. The service will support Wigan children and young people in care whether placed within or outside the Wigan Borough. Delivery will be flexible and may take place across a range of appropriate venues, with some out-of-hours provision required where necessary. ## CPV classification Health and social work services Other community, social and personal services Source Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-07757c-2026-09-18T13:52:11+01:00 [View official notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/ocds-h6vhtk-07757c-2026-09-18T13:52:11+01:00) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. [Track tenders free](https://tendernation.io/register) [Buyer profile Wigan Council: past awards and live tenders](https://tendernation.io/buyers/wigan-council) [Sector More Health and social work tenders](https://tendernation.io/sectors/health-social-work) ## More tenders like this [Dynamic Purchasing System for Complex Care Needs for Children and Young People · Warrington Borough Council · 709 days left · 28 Sept 2028](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bb6-0320-7014-af28-639d40ca5ec7/dynamic-purchasing-system-for-complex-care-needs-for-children-and-young-people) [Healthy Child Programme (HCP) Connected Parents · Wigan Council · 24 days left · 13 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13b92-9c2e-713a-b399-dee5fc99ee57/healthy-child-programme-hcp-connected-parents) [Repeat Care Proceedings Prevention Service · Nottingham City Council · 27 days left · 16 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13b92-8d95-7006-915e-a3919b119bc0/repeat-care-proceedings-prevention-service) [Children and Family Psychological and Therapeutic Services Provider List · Leicestershire County Council · 955 days left · 31 May 2029](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13e27-26c2-72b0-a0be-41bde8844db9/children-and-family-psychological-and-therapeutic-services-provider-list) [Mental Health Recovery · Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council · 566 days left · 8 May 2028](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13b98-e137-7209-84df-56601fd550d1/mental-health-recovery) [RRE-01284 - For the provision of a Digitally Enabled Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (South Staffordshire) · Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust · 14 days left · 3 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a150b5-126d-71a0-9217-fa9167c1e352/rre-01284-for-the-provision-of-a-digitally-enabled-children-young-peoples-m)