Find information about who can benefit from the Adoption Support Fund and apply to be an accredited provider.
What is the Adoption Support Fund
The Adoption Support Fund is a national Fund to increase access to therapeutic support for children adopted from local authority care.
Who can benefit from the fund
The Fund is available for children and young people up to and including the age of 21 (or 25 with a Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education Health & Care Plan) who have been adopted from local authority care in England or adopted from Wales but living in England.
The Fund also includes support for guardians caring for:
- children who were previously looked after
- children adopted from other countries via inter-country adoptions
You can find more information about the Adoption Support Fund and how it works on the Adoption Support Fund website (GOV.UK) Go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/adoption-support-fund-asf (opens new window).
List of approved providers
We have set up an electronic purchasing system of accredited providers who offer therapy funded by Adoption Support Fund.
We aim to make all purchases of ASF therapy via this system, except where adoptive families need specialist services that are not available from providers on the list.
This application process lets providers show that they're able to offer high quality, safe services.
Who can apply to be on the list
Organisations and individuals that provide the following types of therapy can apply to be on the approved list, as these can be funded by the Adoption Support Fund:
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further more complex assessment, for example multidisciplinary assessment including education and health, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, other mental health needs assessment
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creative therapies, for example art, music, drama, play (NVR)
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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
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Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
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psychotherapy
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specialist clinical assessments, for example Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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extensive life story work with a therapeutic intervention, where therapy helps the young person understand and cope with the trauma and difficulties that their life story work might bring up
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respite care where it's part of a therapeutic intervention
This isn't a complete list.
Geographical areas the fund covers
We may be responsible for adopted children living anywhere in the UK, not only in Bristol and surrounding areas. For this reason, we may need ASF provision in different geographical areas.
How to apply
ProContract is our e-commissioning and tendering portal. As a provider of ASF-funded therapy you should:
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visit procontract.due-north.com/ Go to https://procontract.due-north.com/ (opens new window)
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fill in a quick registration process Go to http://procontract.due-north.com/Login (opens new window)
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register an interest in the Bristol ASF opportunity
You can use 'Find opportunity' and search for 'adoption support fund' in Bristol or use the direct link Go to http://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=5beb5de7-1632-e611-8114-000c29c9ba21&p=1a2530c9-009e-e511-8107-000c29c9ba21 (opens new window).
What happens next
When you've registered an interest in this opportunity, you can view the tender opportunity by clicking 'My Activities' and the tender title. This will give you access to all the relevant documents.
The 'Information for Tenderers' document explains what you need to do next. You'll need to answer all the relevant questions. Click 'Start response' to review and fill in tender questions.
You'll then need to submit your application. We'll consider any new completed applications as soon as possible.
Contact
If you have any specific questions about the opportunity or application process, use the ProContract messaging system.