Home Learning Environment Early Years apps Competition

Tender description

The Department will be running a quality assurance exercise to identify and provide an indication of quality for early year's apps of high educational value, so that parents can make more informed choices when selecting apps for their children. The Department for Education (DfE) is also exploring commercial options to provide access for disadvantaged children in the early years to high quality educational mobile/tablet apps. These would be apps for children to use within the home environment to improve their language, literacy and communication skills. We will be hosting a market engagement event on 12th March between 10am and 12pm at: Parker Morris Hall, Abbey Centre 34 Great Smith Street Westminster London SW1P 3BU The intention of this market engagement is to identify the level of interest and gather feedback from suppliers about our requirements and delivery proposals, which will help shape our approach to this procurement. The market engagement event has two purposes: A. We want to make app developers and promoters aware of the forthcoming opportunity to participate in a quality assurance exercise. This will identify communication, literacy and language apps of high educational quality for children in the early years (0-5 years of age). We want to assess the level of interest in participating in this exercise and address any comments or concerns developers may have. B. We want to identify the level of interest in delivering a year's access to one or more high quality early years literacy and language apps to disadvantaged two-, three- and four-year olds in a number of local areas as part of a DfE pilot.