Published date: 17 October 2018

This notice was replaced on 21 January 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 21 January 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

HEREFCC-DN371213-46186947

Published date

17 October 2018

Closing date

19 November 2018

Contract start date

8 January 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Herefordshire is seeking to make a significant, fixed term, investment in the early years workforce that will deliver improved early identification and support for young children with speech, language and communication needs, and their families.

A key objective is that the work, learning and benefit of the service is sustained beyond the lifetime of the contract.

The primary outcomes that the service aims to achieve are to:

 enable the Early Years workforce to effectively support parents to understand how to develop their child's communication skills
 develop and strengthen the skills and capabilities across Herefordshire's Early Years offer and workforce so that the speech, language and communication needs of children aged under five years are better identified and supported
 ensuring that those skills capabilities are embedded and sustained across the Early Years offer and workforce beyond the lifetime of the contract
 improve attainment of early learning goals for communication and language to 95% for girls and 85% for boys at the end of reception year by April 2021
 increase for Herefordshire's funded two year olds from 52.8% at the expected level for speaking at age 3years (62.0% for listening and attention, and 62.9% understanding) 2017, to a minimum of 54% and, 63% and 64% respectively by the end of the contract term.
 target settings achieving Communication Friendly Accreditation status
 new referrals of children aged under five to Herefordshire's speech and language therapy service are consistently appropriate

To achieve these aims, the service will:
 deliver communication friendly setting accreditation and lead communication practitioners within target settings throughout Herefordshire
 deliver practitioner training for Elklan 'let's talk' or equivalent programmes
 support settings to deliver their own small group and individual work, using learning from evidence based programmes
 establish self-sustaining networks of lead communication practitioners
 establish and embed an online toolkit for use by families and professionals
Herefordshire Council has published this opportunity on the 'Supplying the Southwest Portal'. To view the tender documentation related to this opportunity you will need to register on the portal, if you are not already register with Procontract, and express an interest in the opportunity.

To Register with Supplying the Southwest Portal (Procontract) click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your browser address bar; https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Claire Bennett

Address

Council Offices
Plough Lane
Hereford
HR4 0LE
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1432261994

Email

Claire.Bennett@herefordshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk