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title: "Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-043c51"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION"
published: "2024-02-23"
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# Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-043c51

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## Summary

The Department for Education is planning a procurement process for a project titled "Workforce Skills Assessment in Children's Social Care" in the services category. The purpose is to gather information for a potential procurement process to enhance understanding of key personnel using Children's Social Care data and digital services in local authorities. The deadline for expression of interest in an online event is Friday 8 March 2024, with the event scheduled for w/c 11 March 2024.

This tender offers an opportunity for businesses with expertise in systems and technical consultancy services, information technology, and social work services to participate. Businesses with experience in analysing workforce skills in local authorities and producing sector reports would be well-suited. The procurement process aims to support the sector in improving data and digital capabilities to enhance services within Children's Social Care.

## 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.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

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 | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005888-2024 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Feb 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £150,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 3BT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## 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 - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005888-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

## Provenance

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