How to win: Community Domestic Abuse Support Service

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This Service Specification sets out the requirements for the delivery of the COMPASS Community Domestic Abuse Support Service across the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. The Provider will provide a flexible, trauma-informed and person-centred offer comprising both safe accommodation-based support and community-based domestic abuse support for individuals experiencing domestic abuse, regardless of risk level, age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, immigration status or socioeconomic background. The service will support: • Victim-survivors of all genders. • Victim-survivors with or without children. • Individuals who are currently living with, or are separated from, the person causing harm. • Children and young people impacted by domestic abuse. • Children and young people displaying harmful behaviours. • Adults who cause harm through the provision of evidence-based and accredited behaviour change interventions. An effective domestic abuse response recognises that domestic abuse is a gendered crime that disproportionately affects women and girls. However, it also acknowledges that victims and survivors of all genders, ages, sexualities, cultures, faiths, abilities

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £4,025,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 3 December 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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