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DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Childrens Services Commissioner in Croydon

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£38k
Awarded3 Jul 2017
Published23 Jan 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£38ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Education & Training band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children's services, the Department for Education initiates steps to secure improvement, with a presumption that this will best be achieved by removing the service from council control.

DfE wishes to appoint Commissioners to deliver intervention and improvement support in Croydon.l

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure

Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children's services, the Department for Education initiates steps to secure improvement, with a presumption that this will best be achieved by removing the service from council control.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

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Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children's services, the Department for Education initiates steps to secure improvement, with a presumption that this will best be achieved by removing the service from council control.

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