The Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (WMOPCC) in collaboration with West Midlands Community Safety Partnership is seeking applications to its newly established Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the combined role of Independent Chair / Author.
These roles will undertake statutory reviews for domestic homicides within the West Midlands region. As Independent Author / Chair you will conduct Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDRs), previously Domestic Homicide Reviews, based in the 7 Local Authorities in the West Midlands Region; as listed below:
• Birmingham City Council;
• Coventry City Council;
• Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council;
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council;
• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council;
• Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council;
• City of Wolverhampton Council;
The Dynamic purchasing agreement will be effective from the 1st April 2025, this new way of recruiting Chairs and Authors has been introduced to enable greater regional consistency, increase the number of providers available within our area, and to streamline the existing procurement process.
The role of the Independent Chair/Author is to provides a review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 years and over occurred, paying due consideration to whether the death resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by a person to whom they were related or with whom they were, or had been in, an intimate personal relationship or were a member of the same household as themselves.
The WMOPCC recognises that Domestic Abuse is a top priority. We understand that in the tragic event of a person’s death following domestic abuse, it is important to review the circumstances leading to their death and consider what more could have been done by organisations to support, intervene or protect that person.
The purpose of the review is to:
- Identify any lessons to be learnt from the death;
- State the lessons to be learnt, the changes required, actions to achieve those changes and associated timescales;
- Apply those lessons to relevant policies and procedures;
- Prevent future domestic abuse and homicide.
Birmingham City Council will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process on behalf of WMOPCC. Providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest, which you can do here.
Registration and use of In-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the In-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with In-tend please either email Birmingham City Council at: [email protected]
If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Councils tender Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. BCC will send you a log on and password so you can download the selection questionnaire.
