Empowering Families (Family Mentor Service)
Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking an organisation to deliver a volunteer-led family mentor service for vulnerable families known to children's social care. The service will use community volunteers to support families with children in need or on child protection plans, focusing on wellbeing, resilience, education, employment, housing and financial outcomes.
- Closed3 March 2026
- Value£200k
- BuyerSouthend-on-Sea City Council
- WhereSouthend-on-Sea
- CategorySocial care & community, Business & professional services
- RegionEast of England
You'll want to look if you can recruit, train and coordinate community volunteers to deliver mentoring support to vulnerable families, and work within safeguarding frameworks for children's social care.
Possible incumbent
SANCTUARY HOUSING ASSOCIATION won Transitional Supported Housing for this buyer in September 2025, indicating prior experience with Southend's housing and vulnerable families support. Inferred from prior awards to this buyer, not confirmed.