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LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON

Best Start Early Learning Collaboration

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£1.2m
Awarded15 Jan 2016
Published7 Feb 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.2mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This is a Contract Award Notice for Best Start Early Learning Collaboration.

Croydon Council commissioned an Early Learning Collaboration to provide pedagogical leadership and supportto Early Years providers in Croydon.

The contract of service is for an Early Learning Collaboration to form in order to provide pedagogical leadershipand support to Early Years providers in Croydon.

The Early Learning Collaboration is based on the principles of Teaching Schools and will be a cross sectormodel that will deliver to early year's providers across the whole of the borough.

The Early Learning Collaboration has been commissioned to deliver support, advice and training to Early Yearsproviders to help strengthen Early Years provision in the borough.

To ensure that young children get the best start in life, Croydon's Best Start model aims to bring together keyservices including health visiting, children's centres, early years and the voluntary sector into an integratedservice model by 2018.

The Contract will be for 2 years with a possible 1 year extension.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Croydon Council commissioned an Early Learning Collaboration

Croydon Council commissioned an Early Learning Collaboration to provide pedagogical leadership and supportto Early Years providers in Croydon.

02

The contract of service is for

The contract of service is for an Early Learning Collaboration to form in order to provide pedagogical leadershipand support to Early Years providers in Croydon.

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The Early Learning Collaboration is based on

The Early Learning Collaboration is based on the principles of Teaching Schools and will be a cross sectormodel that will deliver to early year's providers across the whole of the borough.

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The Early Learning Collaboration has been commissioned

The Early Learning Collaboration has been commissioned to deliver support, advice and training to Early Yearsproviders to help strengthen Early Years provision in the borough.

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To ensure that young children get

To ensure that young children get the best start in life, Croydon's Best Start model aims to bring together keyservices including health visiting, children's centres, early years and the voluntary sector into an integratedservice model by 2018.

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