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DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Children's Social Care Adviser Doncaster and Slough

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£50k
Awarded17 Feb 2017
Published13 Mar 2017
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£50ktotal 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

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children's social care services.

This is done in part through drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances.

DfE wishes to appoint an Adviser (an individual, partnership or small team) to provide financial and governance support to both Slough Children's Services Trust and Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

The Trust in Doncaster has been in operation for two years and in Slough for over a year.

In both cases recent Ofsted monitoring visits found services to be improving and both Trusts have clear plans in place to continue these improvements.

The Adviser will: support both Trusts to develop robust, realistic and achievable plans to continue to improve their corporate governance, financial stability and strategic partnerships; and, provide intelligence on Trust issues that arise as the Trusts move from 'requires improvement' to 'good'.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children's social care services.

02

This is done in part through drawing

This is done in part through drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances.

03

DfE wishes to appoint an Adviser (

DfE wishes to appoint an Adviser (an individual, partnership or small team) to provide financial and governance support to both Slough Children's Services Trust and Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

04

The Adviser will: support both Trusts

The Adviser will: support both Trusts to develop robust, realistic and achievable plans to continue to improve their corporate governance, financial stability and strategic partnerships; and, provide intelligence on Trust issues that arise as the Trusts move from 'requires improvement' to 'good'.

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