--- title: "Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION" published: "2024-02-23" --- # Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-99ebe97c-3153-4831-8a64-87edb6ce4e32.json) ## Summary The Department for Education is planning a tender for a 'Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care.' This procurement falls under the industry category of Systems and technical consultancy services, Information technology services, Information technology requirements review services, and Social work and related services. The key milestone for engagement is the end date on 20th March 2024. The purpose of this tender is to gather information for a potential procurement process to enhance understanding and knowledge about key people in Children's Social Care data and digital services within local authorities. This tender creates opportunities for businesses experienced in conducting assessments, producing reports, and analysing data in the areas of social care and information technology. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are well-suited to compete for this tender, which requires a mixed methods approach to understand the workforce needs in Children's Social Care. Interested suppliers need to express interest by 8th March to participate in an online event scheduled for w/c 11th March 2024. ## Notice The purpose of this PIN is to initiate market consultation and is not being used as a call for competition. The PIN is intended to raise awareness with the market of a potential future procurement process and to enable time for organisations to begin early discussions with the Department for Education (the department) and each other as to how they may be able to deliver any future contract. This will consist of an event between interested suppliers and the department. We aim for this event to take place in w/c 11 March 2024 online. If you are interested, please contact carody.vyse-peacock@education.gov.uk to arrange an invitation to the event. We intend to share the questions and answers from the session with all potential suppliers. The deadline for expression of interest in this event is Friday 8 March. This will relate to the department's aim to gather information for a potential procurement process to grow our understanding and knowledge about the key people involved in using Children's Social Care (CSC) data and running digital services within local authorities (LAs), as set out in the CSC data and digital strategy. We are aware that there are gaps in the department's knowledge of skills, capability and capacity in data and digital systems in CSC. To help fill these gaps we will expect the supplier to use a mixed methods approach, this will include undertaking a desk-based review of existing evidence, possibly employing web-scraping or similar to analyse relevant LA job adverts and compare them with other sectors. A survey would be required to produce useful estimates for other factual 'core' information. To deliver this work quickly the supplier will require deep existing network with LAs to easily reach the right people. We are looking to procure a suitably experienced supplier to: 1. undertake an assessment to gain a better understanding of the LA CSC analytical data and digital workforce; 2. produce a report summarising findings. The findings should be presented in a way that the department can publish and share with the sector to support them to improve their own services; and 3. provide information and evidence of what the sector needs to enable the department to understand how we can support the sector to grow its data and digital capabilities. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/df5b3d05-ec09-4b85-8e29-b9d5e4b4047b | | 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 | 23 Feb 2024 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 20 Mar 2024 | | 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 | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION | | Locality | MANCHETER | | Post town | Manchester | | Postcode | M1 2WD | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLD3 Greater Manchester | | ITL 3 | TLD33 Manchester | | Local authority | Manchester | | Electoral ward | Piccadilly | | Westminster constituency | Manchester Central | | Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 72220000 - Systems and technical consultancy services - 72222300 - Information technology services - 72223000 - Information technology requirements review services - 85300000 - Social work and related services ## Release History - 23 Feb 2024 at 08:32 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/df5b3d05-ec09-4b85-8e29-b9d5e4b4047b ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/df5b3d05-ec09-4b85-8e29-b9d5e4b4047b 23rd February 2024 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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