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Department for Education

Chair of Sandwell Children's Social Care Trust

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£68k
Awarded31 Mar 2021
Published9 Jun 2021
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£68ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits below the typical range for Health & Social Care contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Chair shall provide support and strategic leadership to Sandwell Children's Trust in order to provide us with the necessary oversight and reassurance around Sandwell's performance, and to help provide strategic support in bringing together the various improvement partners who are working with Sandwell.

The Contractor will support the authority in continuing to develop and implement robust, realistic and achievable plans to improve its children's social care services, in particular those areas which have been judged by Ofsted to be Inadequate.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Chair shall provide support and strategic

The Chair shall provide support and strategic leadership to Sandwell Children's Trust in order to provide us with the necessary.

02

Oversight and reassurance around Sandwell's performance,

oversight and reassurance around Sandwell's performance, and to help provide strategic support in bringing together the various improvement partners who are working with Sandwell.

03

The Contractor will support the authority in

The Contractor will support the authority in continuing to develop and implement robust, realistic and achievable plans to improve its children's social care services, in particular those areas which have been judged by Ofsted to be Inadequate.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

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The Contractor will support the authority in continuing to develop and implement robust, realistic and achievable plans to improve its children's social care services, in particular those areas which have been judged by Ofsted to be Inadequate.

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Stage
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