Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Essex County Council, in collaboration with Public Health, Adult Social Care, Children and Families, and the Essex Integrated Care Board, has awarded a contract to the Social Care Institute for Excellence to support the early intervention and prevention pillar of the Essex, Southend and Thurrock Mental Health Strategy 2023. The project focuses on shifting the system's primary focus from acute, crisis, and recovery work toward a more proactive approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health across the life course. The commissioned organization is tasked with designing and guiding a structured, co-produced process to identify a small number of priority actions for partner collaboration. This contract, identified as RFQ 153, has a total value of 47,500 pounds excluding VAT. The performance period for these services runs from September 21, 2026, through December 21, 2026.