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<p>The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme is funded by up to £39m, and will encourage
councils across England to integrate evidence-based services and approaches to addressing
parental conflict that work for their local families.</p><p>Just over a quarter of
the programme budget will be used to build the evidence base for which interventions
work to reduce parental conflict, and provide access to face-to-face support to reduce
parental conflict in 30 local authorities across England. The procurement process
for the delivery of the face-to-face interventions will be open to any interested
party as an open competition.</p><p>To help potential suppliers to prepare for these
opportunities, we recently published a Prior Information Notice which outlined the
timescales for the procurement. This notice advised suppliers that we will be launching
an opportunity in July for expert organisations to bid to deliver the face-to-face
interventions which DWP will be funding, with these contracts in place by January
2019. Full details of this process will be available when the Invitation to Tender
is published. Organisations interested in bidding for the face-to-face contracts will
be able to access the procurement opportunities on Contracts Finder, and can register
their interest on Bravo.</p><p>In addition to the procurement of face-to-face services,
we have also announced £6m of joint funding with the Department of Health and Social
Care, aimed at improving the outcomes of children of alcohol-dependent parents, and
we expect that there will be opportunities for voluntary sector organisations to participate
in this work.</p><p> </p>
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