Software package and information systems

Tender description

Kent County Council (the council) is the largest county council in England covering an area of 3 500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over 900 00 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 300 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils. To support the continued focus on improved school attendance for Kent's Looked After Children, the local authority must collect the data every school day either through an internal data collection system or through a commissioned provider. Further background and technical information can be found within the tender documentation. The successful service provider will make daily contact with every school or specialist provider, including out of county provision, that has a Kent looked after child on roll from Reception to Year 11. Contact is required to confirm that the pupil is in attendance. If they are not, the provider will contact the Carer (where relevant) and, if necessary, Virtual School Kent or Social Worker. In addition, where a pupil has been excluded, the provider will send an immediate alert to Virtual School Kent or the Social Worker enabling them to follow up. A number of reports, including a daily report, should be made available to the Council. This ‘real time’ data will assist Kent Local Authority in tracking patterns of attendance and exclusions and in turn enable us to tackle underachievement where it is linked to poor attendance. Expressions of interest will only be accepted via the Kent Business Portal.