Published date: 19 October 2022

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


Closing: 5 September 2022, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Government services - 75131000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£665,380

Procurement reference

tender_312340/1115672

Published date

19 October 2022

Closing date

5 September 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

6 October 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Children and Families Act (2014) introduced a 26-week target for all care proceeding cases to be concluded. Data from 20212 shows the average duration of a care or supervision case was 45 weeks, only 23% of cases were disposed of within 26 weeks.
The inability to resolve cases under PLO within or close to the statutory timeframe of 26 weeks, poses significant problems for the system as a whole in ensuring vulnerable children and families receive appropriate decisions in a timely manner.
Initial work by Mutual Ventures Ltd from December 2021 to April 2022 (funded by DfE) sought to understand the impact of delays in care proceedings on children's services through the prism of financial costs. A direct output of that programme of work was construction of a modelling tool to analyse the financial impact of family court delays on children's services, populated with the CST/LA cohort to test assumptions, validate and generate outputs.
DfE would like a provider to support LAs to use this tool, so that LAs can see where their inefficiencies are and take actions to reduce delays and make financial savings. The route to market was the CCS Management Consultancy Framework.

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Award information

Awarded date

6 October 2022

Contract start date

6 October 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£665,380

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mutual Ventures Ltd

Address

2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HP

Reference

Companies House number: 07490364

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

James Drew

Address

DfE Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
England

Email

James.DREW@education.gov.uk