Education and training services

Tender description

This contract is to establish a framework of providers to support Northumberland County Council to discharge it’s statutory duty regarding the provision of alternative education for children of statutory school age. The service is required to meet need across Northumberland and will be structured as follows: Lot 1: Group Provision for Permanently Excluded Children; Lot 2: 1:1 Tuition for Permanently Excluded Children; Lot 3: Preventative Programme. This procurement will be undertaken following the light touch regime of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. This lot seeks to identify providers who deliver tuition on a group basis. Whilst it is accepted that group sizes will vary, the expectation is that tuition will be delivered on a small group basis with a ratio of no more than 1:8. This may be made on either a full time or part time basis. This lot seeks to identify providers who deliver tuition on a 1:1 basis. For clarity this would be 1:1 interaction with the student throughout the day or taught period and does not include sections of time where the student could reasonably expect the attention of the teacher or support worker as part of larger group delivery. These are ‘bespoke’ programmes to be delivered for the purposes of preventing exclusion of individual or groups of students on a fixed-term or permanent basis. Such programmes will be in addition to the student’s core educational entitlement and in the main be delivered at the school or take pupils off site for short periods to focus on particular projects or activities to enhance their emotional and social resilience. It follows that the pupil will remain on the roll of their substantive education provider. Programmes will vary in length and content, according to the needs of the individual or group and the agreement between provider and commissioner.