Published date: 31 July 2023

Last edited date: 13 March 2024

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


Closing: 17 July 2023, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

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

£972,020.15

Procurement reference

tender_319811/1236916

Published date

31 July 2023

Closing date

17 July 2023

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

17 July 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

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 for the Award of Contract: Delivery Partner of Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme.

The Independent Care Review and National Panel review made a number of ambitious recommendations to transform support and protection in children's social care (CSC). In response to these recommendations DfE has published its implementation strategy, which sets out its proposed reforms in this area of CSC:

a. A new category of support - family help - to replace the current framework across voluntary targeted early help services to statutory child in need services.

b. Restructuring the workforce so a multidisciplinary team of family help workers can own relationships with families in need under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 (this means that a wider range of professionals can lead, rather than always being qualified social workers, as is the current set up).

c. More effective, integrated multi-agency child protection response, including dedicated, highly skilled professionals from local authorities, police and health with responsibility for specific child protection functions.

d. Change to organisational culture, involving wider family members and connected people as a central component throughout family help and child protection.

This is a pivotal moment for children's social care. Given the scale and complexity of the reform programme, and the importance of robust testing to inform future policy, we are seeking to contract to an external organisation (a 'Delivery Partner') to support pathfinder local areas to implement new ways of delivering services to children and families; to identify the conditions for successful and sustained implementation of reforms across local areas; and to facilitate learning dissemination, from the programme, across relevant sectors.

The Delivery Partner will work as part of a virtual team with the DfE pathfinder programme team, the external Evaluation Partner and relevant policy officials - working collaboratively towards a shared vision for a reformed children's social care system.

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Award information

Awarded date

17 July 2023

Contract start date

17 July 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£972,020.15

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mutual Ventures

Address

2-6 Boundary Row, London, SE1 8HP

Reference

Companies House number: 7490364

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

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

Email

Emilie.WILKINSON@EDUCATION.GOV.UK