Published date: 12 June 2024

Last edited date: 22 July 2024

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


Closing: 22 February 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Community action programme - 85322000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£1,209,274

Procurement reference

tender_388744/1344386

Published date

12 June 2024

Closing date

22 February 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 July 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This is a Notice of Award for: Kinship Peer Support.
The Department for Education are looking for a provider to facilitate peer to peer support groups for kinship carers in areas of most need across the country.

Kinship carers play a vital role in caring for children who may otherwise have entered care. Many struggle emotionally, physically and financially due to the caring responsibilities they take on. The service aligns with the recommendations in the Independent Review of Children's Social Care Case for Change report, which was published in June 2021, calling for kinship care to be "prioritised and supported". Establishing a better infrastructure for peer support groups is one way of responding to this.

Peer groups are a high impact way of supporting thousands of kinship carers, and research shows that emotional support from kinship carers in similar positions is the most important form of support needed after financial support.

We want to maintain high-quality peer support across the country, to ensure provision is sustained and continues to be available to those who need it. Therefore, we are seeking a supplier to maintain and deliver the peer support groups which have been created as well as creating new groups in areas of demand.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

CR: Kinship Peer Support CF

  • Opportunity
  • Published 14 December 2023

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

24 May 2024

Contract start date

1 July 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Total value of contract

£1,209,274

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Grandparents Plus (Kinship)

Address

18 Victoria Park Square Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Emilie Wilkinson

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

emilie.wilkinson@education.gov.uk