Invitation to submit a tender to evaluate the Barnardos Traveller Mothers in the Criminal Justice System Support Service.

Overview

Barnardos wishes to contract a researcher, or teams of researchers, to conduct an evaluation of a new service supporting Traveller mothers involved in the Criminal Justice System. It is therefore seeking tenders from researchers to carry out this evaluation. This is an open invitation to tender, and all suitably qualified and experienced researchers, or teams of researchers, are invited to submit proposals.

About Barnardos

Barnardos is the largest charity in Ireland working with and supporting marginalised and disadvantaged children and their families who are impacted by adverse childhood experiences. Barnardos’ mission is to help transform children’s lives through our services; support parents; and challenge society where it fails our children.

To advance this mission, Barnardos provides a range of services for families and children over 45 centres around the country. By focusing on needs led, evidence informed and outcome focused work, Barnardos seeks to achieve the best outcomes for children in Ireland by working with them and their families through our services. The core service model is to deliver community-based services tailored to meet the needs of children and their parents. Barnardos staff work in partnership with parents and others to ensure a child’s needs are met. Alongside Early Intervention Services for children, Family Support projects, and Young Parent Support programmes, Barnardos also provide a range of specialist programmes, such as a new service supporting Traveller Mothers in the Criminal Justice System, Parent Advocacy and Information Service, Guardian Ad Litem Service, a Post Adoption Service, a Bereavement Counselling Service, Roots of Empathy, and Wizards of Words.

Please see Request for Tender document attached below.

Submission of tenders

Tenders should be submitted by email attachment as a single PDF or Microsoft Word document (with researcher CVs as appendices) to: research@barnardos.ie.

Receipt of tenders will be acknowledged.

The closing date for receipt of completed tenders is the 25/04/2026. Incomplete tenders, tenders that do not follow the format prescribed above, or tenders received after the closing date will not be considered.