When it will announce the outcome of the invitation to tender, carried out between 1 October and 6 November 2015, for service providers to …

A consortium bid consisting of three organisations: Penumbra; Health in Mind; and the Mental Health Foundation, supported by a further 26 organisations that provide services for survivors across Scotland, has been successful in securing the tender to administer the Survivor Support Fund with a total budget of £13.5 million over the next five years. Survivors have told us that they need services that are designed around their own individual needs, including: specialised counselling; physical healthcare; and support in terms of education, employment, benefits, legal advice, housing and practical matters. It is also important that, in moving forward, survivors will continue to have their needs met through existing services and that services are developed and enhanced to meet these needs.
The Survivor Support Fund will work with survivors and the services that support them to expand and enhance existing survivor support. It will offer survivors personalised care and treatment based on their individual needs, aspirations and personal goals, and provide a full range of services across Scotland, including rural areas.
The core components for the support fund have already been developed through the consortium proposal and are in place. Essential work will now focus on engagement, agreement and partnership working to deliver the support fund. During this time survivors will continue to have their needs met with no breaks in service.
The 26 support organisations referred to above are:
Action in Mind
Argyle and Bute Rape Crisis
Break the Silence
Birchwood Highland
Dundee Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre
Fife Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre
Gay Men's Health, Edinburgh
Hear Me Counselling
Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project
LGBT Centre, Edinburgh
Moira Anderson Foundation
Moving On, Ayrshire
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Psychological Trauma Services
Partners in Advocacy
Pilton Community Health Project
Rape and Abuse Resource Centre
Rape and Abuse Service, Inverness
Rape and Abuse Support, Aberdeen
Rape Crisis Centre, Edinburgh
Rape Crisis Centre, Forth Valley
Rape Crisis Centre, Glasgow
Rape Crisis Centre, Lanarkshire
Rape Crisis Centre, Western Isles
Scottish Borders Rape Crisis Centre
South West Rape Crisis Centre
Talk Now Counselling