Appropriate Adult Service for Children & Young People & Vulnerable Adults
What the buyer wrote
The provision of Appropriate Adults service aims to ensure safeguards are in place for children under 18 years old and also for people aged over the age of 17 years with mental ill health, learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorders who are arrested and taken into custody. Under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes of Practice, Police Custody Sergeants must secure an Appropriate Adult (AA) to safeguard the rights and welfare of children/ young people and vulnerable adults detained or questioned by the police. The Appropriate Adult will attend the police custody suite and check that the child/young person or vulnerable adult's welfare has been safeguarded…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Appropriate Adult Service for Children & Young People & Vulnerable Adults
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Aug 2018
- Work ends
- 31 Aug 2023
- Kind of work
- Mental health and wellbeing services
Who the buyer named
Mr Mike McGowan was the named contact on this notice.