# CAF229-19 - Improving Child and Family Arrangements Service \(ICFA\)

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Cafcass.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Cafcass](/buyers/cafcass/contract-awards)
- Supplier: Child Action Northwest
- Award value: £6,500,000
- Tender value: £6,500,000
- Award date: 1 April 2021
- Published: 1 February 2022
- Contract start: 1 May 2021
- Contract end: 30 April 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1bdd820c-bf18-41d4-901a-187de2d8fbe7-505964
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-68881b08-52d3-4e92-affc-909cac760a2c

## Description

Cafcass \(the Buyer\), working on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, are required to deliver a range of child contact services and court ordered activities for use in private law family court proceedings in support of children and families experiencing divorce and separation\. The Improving Child and Family Arrangements \(ICFA\) service is to replace current Child Contact Intervention Services \(CCI\) and contributes to that duty\. The SSQ stage will take place between 21st September 2020 and 26th October 2020\. Only suppliers wishing to be considered for lead regional provider status should respond to the SSQ\. This procurement is split in to lots\. These being:- Lot 1 North region covering Cafcass areas A1 - Tyneside, Northumbria A2 - Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York, Cumbria and Blackburn A4 - South Yorkshire & Hull A5 - West Yorkshire Lot 2 East Region, covering Cafcass Areas: A10 - Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire\. A11 - Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire\. A14 - Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk\. Lot 3 West Region covering Cafcass areas A3 - Greater Manchester A9 - Cheshire and Merseyside A12 - Birmingham and the Black Country, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Lot 4 South East Region covering Cafcass Areas: A17 - Kent A16 - Surrey & Sussex A15a & b - Greater London Lot 5 South West Region covering Cafcass Areas: A7 - Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Avon and Thames Valley\. A8 - Cornwall, Devon and Somerset\. A6 - Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset\. A13 - Coventry and Northamptonshire A18 - Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1bdd820c-bf18-41d4-901a-187de2d8fbe7-505964)