Published date: 17 August 2023

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


Closing: 1 August 2023, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£48,000

Procurement reference

DCC001-DN681526-64762430

Published date

17 August 2023

Closing date

1 August 2023

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

1 November 2023

Contract end date

31 October 2025

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Children's Social Care require training to enable their social workers to complete assessments of parents with learning disability and additional needs to inform decision making about whether children can return to their parents' care. These assessments are regularly requested during family court proceedings and are specialist assessments which cannot be undertaken without training as the courts only recognise either PAMS assessments or ParentAssess assessments in relation to parents with learning disability and additional needs. Training internal staff to undertake these assessments means that costly independent ParentAssess assessments do not need to be commissioned.

Historically we have commissioned PAMS to train our staff but following a review of PAMS assessments vis-à-vis ParentAssess assessments a decision was taken at Strategic Level in February 2023 to train staff in ParentAssess in the future as this was deemed to be the preferred assessment framework (having trained a small group of staff in both and taken their feedback). Coincidentally, the founder of PAMS has just announced her retirement and this framework will not be available in the future as the software will no longer be updated and meet DCC IT compliance.

Award information

Awarded date

17 August 2023

Contract start date

1 November 2023

Contract end date

31 October 2025

Total value of contract

£48,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ParentAssess

Address

70 Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
MK16 0EG

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Lesley Champion

Address

County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UJ
England

Telephone

+44 3000266110

Email

lesley.champion@durham.gov.uk

Website

http://www.durham.gov.uk