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Department for Education

Early Years (EY) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Provision of Phase 1 Materials and Training

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01/ The notice

Key facts

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Deadline (UK time)
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Published
13 Aug 2026
Region
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02/ The brief

What the notice says

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Early Years (EY) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Provision of Phase 1 Materials and Training

Procurement Description

This Tender Notice is in relation to the Department for Education Early Years (EY) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Provision of Phase 1 Materials and Training.

Department for Education are seeking to procure an online package of training with learning materials for early years practitioners on SEND and make this available and accessible for all early years practitioners from September 2026 for up to 12 months, with the possibility of extension on a quarterly basis for up to an additional 12 months if required

The training should:

Be specific to SEND in early years only, specifically ages 0-4.

Be available and applicable to all early years practitioners, regardless of qualification level or setting type (PVIs, school-based nurseries, childminders etc.) and meet government accessibility standards.

Be in an online, modular, self-paced format that users can revisit at their convenience with videos/webinars dispersed amongst the online learning.

Provide a minimum of 20 hours of content, to enable and support learning beyond the level currently covered in the DfE’s Early Years Child Development Training, module 8.

Cover, at a minimum, content around inclusive practice and methods for embedding this within a setting and information/guidance on engaging with parents of children with SEND.

A combination of existing and newly configured content is acceptable, provided mobilisation and outcomes requirements are met.

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DfE uses Jaggaer e-procurement portal. Suppliers must register/log in to access the full ITT and submit a response. Please refer to ITT 3968.

The Tender period is Tuesday 26 May and closes at 5pm on Friday 12 June.

Clarification period will be until 5pm on Friday 06 June. Please submit Clarification Questions via Jaggaer messaging portal.

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

  • 80000000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

11 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 23 Mar 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 23 March 2026.

    Deadline in this release: Fri 15 May 2026, 23:59 BST.

    Release 026169-2026

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  2. 23 Mar 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 23 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Deadline in this release: Fri 15 May 2026, 23:59 BST.

    Release 026189-2026

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  3. 23 Mar 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 23 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 026209-2026

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  4. 23 Mar 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 23 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 026229-2026

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  5. 23 Mar 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 23 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Deadline in this release: Fri 15 May 2026, 23:59 BST.

    Release 026238-2026

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  6. 24 Mar 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 24 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 026794-2026

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  7. 26 Mar 2026
    Planning notice update

    Planning notice update published 26 March 2026. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 027886-2026

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  8. 22 May 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 22 May 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 047654-2026

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  9. 26 May 2026
    Tender notice

    Tender notice published 26 May 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Deadline in this release: Fri 12 Jun 2026, 17:00 BST.

    Release 048906-2026

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  10. 17 Jul 2026
    Notice

    Notice published 17 July 2026. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 067897-2026

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  11. 13 Aug 2026
    Notice

    Notice published 13 August 2026. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 077181-2026

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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

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06/ Questions

About this notice

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07/ Tender hubs

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08/ Related

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Reference
ocds-h6vhtk-067130
Source
Find a Tender
Stage
award · Awarded
Last verified
Thu 20 Aug 2026, 08:11 BST
Read at
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 06:30 BST

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