Published date: 5 April 2024

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


Closing: 19 January 2024, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Public relations services - 79416000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£129,000

Procurement reference

tender_420131/1340212

Published date

5 April 2024

Closing date

19 January 2024

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

22 January 2024

Contract end date

22 January 2027

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Direct Award

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Teacher sufficiency continues to be a challenge. For teacher recruitment, this means there is a need to grow the demand for teaching in new audiences - particularly audience segments who would not normally consider teaching, presenting a persuasive, aspirational and differentiated vision of an appealing profession.

The Get into Teaching Candidate Pipeline Strategy aims to elevate the status of teaching and drive motivation and relevancy for new audiences who have not yet considered it as a career. Our current priority is to promote teaching through partnerships to a younger audience, with a focus on new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) partners to drive interest where recruitment is most challenging.
to partner with an exciting and well-established organisation, The Scouts, to inspire the next generation of teachers. The Scouts mission is to support young people in their personal development, empowering them to step up and make a positive contribution to society. Through Scouting, young people develop important skills such as leadership, confidence, teamwork, and resilience, all of which are attributes that make a good teacher.

Through this partnership, we will work with the Scouts group 'Explorers' to provide 14-18-year-olds (circa. 44k) with the skills and knowledge they need to consider pursuing a career in teaching. We will implement this through the creation of hands-on, fun, and engaging activities based around developing teaching skills, whilst contributing to the existing Scouting programme. We propose a 3-year partnership, on a 1+1+1 basis to allow us to end the contract at the end of the first year if required (depending upon budget and business planning).

In addition, we will also engage with adult volunteers in Scouting to raise awareness of teaching as a potential career choice.

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Award information

Awarded date

6 March 2024

Contract start date

22 January 2024

Contract end date

22 January 2027

Total value of contract

£129,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The Scout Association

Address

Scout Services Limited Gilwell Park Chingford London England E4 7QW

Reference

Charity Commission reference: 306101

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Address

Department for Education
Manchester
M1 2WD
England

Email

benson.moyo@education.gov.uk