Published date: 15 June 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 20 April 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £539,346

Procurement reference

RD1001422

Published date

15 June 2018

Closing date

20 April 2018

Contract start date

1 May 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Delivery of a national longitudinal study of local authority child and family social workers in England. The aim of the study is to collect robust evidence on recruitment, retention and progression in child and family social work, by following a large and representative sample of social workers, at different stages of their career, over the next five years.

The Contractor will undertake 25 face-to-face exploratory qualitative interviews within five 'case study' LAs. The survey phase will adopt a longitudinal design, aiming to achieve a representative sample of LA child and family social workers in England. The survey needs to recruit a large enough sample of both new entrants and established social workers at Wave 1 (Autumn 2018) to retain sufficient numbers by Wave 5 (Autumn 2022) to enable reliable subgroup analysis e.g. by gender, age, length of service, full/ part-time etc. The aim is to retain at least 500-800 'new entrants' and 1000 'established' social workers in the study at Wave 5. For consistency, the survey will adopt the same methodology and timing each year. In September 2018 and of each subsequent year through to 2022, it will start with an online approach moving to telephone among non-responders after four weeks. Qualitative telephone interviews will also be conducted with 20 leavers and 20 stayers each year.

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Award information

Awarded date

30 April 2018

Contract start date

1 May 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£539,346

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IFF Research

Address

Chart House
16 Chart Street
London
N1 6DD

Reference

None

Value of contract

£539,346

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Jessica Dunn

Address

2 St Paul's Place
Sheffield
S1 2FJ
England

Email

jessica.dunn@education.gov.uk