--- title: "Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation - Fostering Recruitment and Assessment of Foster Carers Function" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DERBY CITY COUNCIL" published: "2018-11-22" --- # Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation - Fostering Recruitment and Assessment of Foster Carers Function Buyer: DERBY CITY COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-708570bd-8d84-4194-87d4-d06173c6213d.json) ## Summary Derby City Council is currently undertaking a Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation for the recruitment and assessment of foster carers. This process, falling under the planning stage, aims to engage qualified and experienced organisations to develop the Council's in-house fostering capabilities. The consultation period runs from Monday, 12 November to Wednesday, 21 November 2018, with a deadline for responses set for 12:00 noon on the final day. The initiative is rooted in the health and social work services industry, focusing on enhancing the support for children in care within a 20-mile radius of Derby. Interested parties can find more information in the provided documents. This consultation represents a significant opportunity for businesses active in social care and fostering services, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations. These businesses can potentially contribute their expertise to help increase the local foster carer provision, thereby creating a sustainable impact on the lives of vulnerable children. Firms with experience in recruitment, training, and support services related to fostering will be particularly well-suited to engage with this council-led initiative and could position themselves as key partners in the forthcoming formal tendering process. ## Notice Derby City Council wishes to undertake a Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation exercise with suitably qualified and experienced organisations, and interested stakeholders, in advance of a formal tendering process to Recruit and Assess Foster Carers for our in-house fostering provision. The Council is opening a consultation opportunity from Monday 12 November to Friday 30 November 2018 during which we would like to talk to the market to ascertain how we might work together to increase Derby City Council's internal foster carer provision of high quality foster carers households, who have the skills to meet the needs of our Children In Care population, by recruiting and transferring a minimum of twenty five foster carers households per annum for 2020/21 and 2021/22, within a 20 mile radius. Please see the attached documents for further information, starting with the "Overview" document. Please email responses to this consultation to procurement@derby.gov.uk with the subject header of 'TD1411 - Fostering Consultation' by 12.00noon on Friday 30 November 2018. The information you supply will be treated in the strictest confidence. It will not be made available to future potential bidders for the new service in the event of a tendering process taking place. This is in line with Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act i.e. a qualified exemption in relation to 'Commercial Interests. Additional information: This Social Value and Market Engagement Consultation is not an invitation to tender. The Council as the contracting authority is issuing this request for information only, in order to assess the reaction of the market and thus make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15be9f8b-cb52-449d-9314-11d83b73f0aa | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 22 Nov 2018 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 30 Nov 2018 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DERBY CITY COUNCIL | | Locality | DERBY | | Post town | Derby | | Postcode | DE1 2FS | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLF East Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLF1 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | | ITL 3 | TLF11 Derby | | Local authority | Derby | | Electoral ward | Darley | | Westminster constituency | Derby South | | Delivery location | TLF East Midlands (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services - 98 - Other community, social and personal services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services - 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services ## Release History - 22 Nov 2018 at 10:14 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15be9f8b-cb52-449d-9314-11d83b73f0aa - 12 Nov 2018 at 08:37 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15be9f8b-cb52-449d-9314-11d83b73f0aa - 12 Nov 2018 at 08:08 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15be9f8b-cb52-449d-9314-11d83b73f0aa ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15be9f8b-cb52-449d-9314-11d83b73f0aa 22nd November 2018 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/bac4fce0-e415-44e6-93b0-14b18aef6e96 Corporate Parenting CIC Latest Profile Information - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/5ec63e09-eb76-4591-a0a7-325a7844b882 Children in Care Placement Sufficiency Strategy 2016 - 2019 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/57581c76-8438-4cf1-b486-2384dbd90d94 Demand 01112018 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/c6cb4726-3863-4ab2-b723-5fd0f69600d8 Questions for Providers - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/8f7433f2-b0f5-4a4e-9c0b-eb5a6ee0fbbe Update to Sufficiency Strategy 31032018 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/c3d2871d-d880-4d2f-b44b-11ea0829b55d Overview ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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