Published date: 23 May 2023
Last edited date: 21 December 2023
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£24,975
Procurement reference
tender_365715/1216932
Published date
23 May 2023
Closing date
1 February 2023
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
1 May 2023
Contract end date
30 April 2024
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Competitive quotation (below threshold)
The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
On the week of 23rd May, the previous Minister for Children and Families announced the actions we are taking now to improve children's social care, including the publication of an implementation strategy, as well as:
Working with local authorities to boost efforts to recruit more foster carers, ensuring children have access to the right placements at the right time;
Refocussing the support for social workers in the early part of their careers, particularly to enhance their skills and knowledge in child protection;
Joining up data from across the public sector to increase transparency - both between safeguarding partners and to the wider public;
Develop a National Children's Social Care Framework, which will set direction for the
system and point everyone to the best available evidence.
The recommendations in these reports are ambitious, complex and wide-ranging, and we must consider them carefully. The Department has committed to engaging with those with lived experience of care as well as the sector to inform our work on implementation and ensure our reforms truly deliver for our vulnerable children and their families.
The Department has run a separate exercise with key children's charities to co-create with the department sessions to engage with those with lived experience of the care system.
Alongside, we keen to appoint an organisation to work with us specifically on reaching those groups who are harder to engage and who may not be easily be covered by our wider engagement work. We are looking for a bidder who understands and has previous experience of the workings of children's social care and in particular of those with lived experience of the care system.
This post is an essential role in implementing the new children's social care reforms. The post holder will facilitate and run, virtually or face to face, effective, inclusive sessions and engagement with people with lived experience of the care system, to support them to feed in views and influence implementation of reforms. Each session will have a specific focus on various aspects of the reform implementation- to be confirmed in partnership with the DfE.
The initial contract duration is 12 months to align with the proposed consultation periods.
Award information
Awarded date
21 February 2023
Contract start date
1 May 2023
Contract end date
30 April 2024
Total value of contract
£24,975
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Coram Voice
Address
2nd building, Coram Campus
Reference
Companies House number: 03050826
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
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