Notice Information
Notice Title
National Child Safeguarding Facilitator Role (Local Government Focus)
Notice Description
Strong and effective multi-agency safeguarding arrangements sit at the heart of cross-government efforts to ensure the best outcomes for all children and families. The Department for Education is inviting bids for the role of a "National child safeguarding facilitator (local government focus)". The Department is looking for an individual who understands and has experience of the workings of local government and in particular multi-agency safeguarding for children at a senior level, to work in partnership with national facilitators for police and health in supporting and challenging local safeguarding children's partnerships. The individual will be required to support the local government response to the safeguarding partners reform work and the development of existing national policy to improve safeguarding outcomes for children and young people. This will include, but is not limited to: - Identifying and assessing emerging issues and threats within local multi-agency safeguarding partnerships and developing plans to address these in partnership with other national facilitators. - Liaising with all local safeguarding partnerships in England and engage relevant safeguarding leads in local government to promote effective arrangements, to map and share best practice. - Providing appropriate peer review and challenge to support development of robust local arrangements. Relevant safeguarding experience within a multi-disciplinary team along with knowledge and understanding of children's social care practice including guidance, appropriate legislation and issues relevant to children particularly the Children and Social Work Act 2017 is essential. We anticipate this will be for 15-month service contract with an option to extend for 12 months at an approximate total contract cost of PS194,400 The Department will be holding a market engagement event on 2nd November 2021 10:00 - 11:00. If you wish to attend the market engagement event please message the Department through Jaggaer to register. The event will be held via Microsoft Teams. The presentation slides will be made available on Jaggaer after the event The opportunity is available on our electronic tendering system: https://education.app.jaggaer.com
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-dfd83c8d-66f6-4b8d-88b5-3dc47eaed186
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7da33fc8-0932-4fcc-b42c-4c885ec9a119
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85300000 - Social work and related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £194,400 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 22 Oct 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 22 Nov 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 12 Aug 2021Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 3 Jan 2022 - 31 Mar 2023 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- safeguarding.reform@education.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 3BT
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7da33fc8-0932-4fcc-b42c-4c885ec9a119
22nd October 2021 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder -
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/97c10ba5-5e01-4804-bf63-1f6704e484bd
30th July 2021 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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