Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c1e-d665-714e-a79f-79194028d933/train-foster-carers-and-support-workers-to-meet-the-safeguarding-needs-of-unacco awarded GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # Train foster carers and support workers to meet the safeguarding needs of unaccompanied asylum seeking children [Department For Education](https://tendernation.io/buyers/department-for-education) Estimated value £148,000 Published 18 Apr 2018 Deadline Closed 18 May 2018 ## 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 The Department is looking to appoint a provider to set up and deliver 1,000 training places at suitable regional venues across England. The training will equip foster carers and support workers of unaccompanied asylum seeking children with knowledge and skills to enable them to build swift and strong trusting bonds with these children. This in turn, will reduce the risk of these children going missing from their care placements, being trafficked onwards or being victims of sexual, economic or other forms of exploitation or other harmful influence. Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are under 18 years old and are applying for asylum in their own right. They have been separated from both parents and are not being cared for in the UK by an adult who in law or by custom has a responsibility to do so. Under section 20 of the Children Act 1989, the local authority where an unaccompanied or asylum seeking child first presents has a duty to accommodate the child because "there is no other person who has parental responsibility for him". A child who is accommodated under section 20 by the local authority for a continuous period of more than 24 hours becomes a looked after child (LAC). The local authority then has a set of duties that relate to caring for any LAC. Unaccompanied children are then looked after by foster carers who have been assessed and registered by a fostering service provider under regulations 26 and 27 of the Fostering Services Regulations (England) 2011, or placed in semi-independent living placements. The training will equip foster carers and support workers of semi-independent living placements to: • understand and respond to the particular needs and vulnerabilities of this group of children, including radicalisation; • quickly gain children's trust in order to prevent them from running away from a safe placement; • better understand and recognise the signs and risks of exploitation of these children including trafficking; and • understand when and how to refer children to the right agencies or to support children to access the right help. Read full description ## CPV classification Health and social work services Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/28434f2a-7e1b-4565-bab7-46d3b89e3b09) 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. 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