Published date: 14 February 2020

Withdrawn opportunity - This means that the contract has been withdrawn early. This could be due to a change of circumstances.


Closing: 6 April 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,100,000

Procurement reference

tender_224934/836462

Published date

14 February 2020

Closing date

6 April 2020

Contract start date

1 September 2020

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Contract type

Service 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

Overview

The equality and diversity fund regional hubs support schools to develop local solutions that help teachers covered by at least one of the protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010 progress into leadership. The protected characteristics are:

-age
-disability
-gender reassignment
-marriage and civil partnership
-pregnancy and maternity
-race
-religion or belief
-sex
-sexual orientation

The funding of the equality and diversity regional hubs reinforces the government's commitment to increasing the diversity of school leadership and maximising the number of leaders available by raising aspirations and the chances of successful promotion among people with leadership potential.

We invited lead schools to apply for grant funding in 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020. The application round for 2018 to 2020 regional hub lead schools is closed. Funding was awarded to lead schools covering each of the 8 regional school commissioner (RSC) regions.

Regional hub lead schools are responsible for allocating funding to individual school-led projects and for co-ordinating leadership development for teachers covered by protected characteristics across their region.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Equality and Diversity Fund 2020-2022

  • Opportunity
  • Published 14 February 2020, last edited 14 February 2020

Links

About the buyer

Address

Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

Equality.ANDDIVERSITY@education.gov.uk