Notice Information
Notice Title
National Workload Action Group secretariat and lead delivery partner on best practice guidance for retention and agency
Notice Description
Following an open procurement, the Department for Education has appointed a suitably experienced organisation to deliver the following objectives relating to child and family social work: 1) To deliver solutions recommended by the National Workload Action Group (NWAG)and provide a secretariat role for the group 2) produce tools and resources to support Local Authorities with social worker retention; and 3) produce tools and resources to support Local Authorities in the engagement of agency social workers. The NWAG is made up of sector and practice experts and seeks to identify and recommend solutions to reduce unnecessary workload drivers for child and family social workers so that child and family social workers have enough time to spend working directly with children and families.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The supplier will be responsible for delivering solutions recommended by the NWAG (either by procuring 3rd parties or performing the work directly). As part of this work the supplier will deliver a secretariat role to convene and manage the NWAG as an impartial adjudicator. In addition to the work of the NWAG, the same supplier is required to: - collate and/or produce tools and resources on areas that impact social worker retention to complement the Social Worker Employer Standards Health Check, areas include wellbeing, supervision and effective workforce planning systems; and - produce tools/resources to support Local Authorities to engage agency social workers effectively and collaboratively (including, subject to consultation, to support local authorities to comply with proposed national rules on engaging agency social work resource).
Renewal: The contractual term is set to expire in March 2025 with a possible extension of up to a further 24 months. The Buyer is expecting all deliverables to be delivered by March 2025 and any extension will be on a reduced scope and reduced cost to primarily allow the supplier to maintain / survey / improve the success of the resources only.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0391df
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023982-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
-
- CPV Codes
80000000 - Education and training services
85000000 - Health and social work services
85310000 - Social work services
85320000 - Social services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £1,083,333 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £1,083,333 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,010,368 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 16 Aug 20233 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 23 May 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 28 Feb 2023Expired
- Award Date
- 27 Jul 20233 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- Department for Education
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 3BT
- Postcode Area
- South West London
- Country
- England
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- 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 URLs
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