CR: Foster Care: Delivery Partner/Consultant

Tender description

DfE is looking for a delivery partner to provide support and challenge to Local Authorities (LAs) working in small, self-selected, groups, or “clusters”, to deliver an ambitious programme to overhaul fostering recruitment, delivering on a commitment made in Stable Homes, Built on Love. For this procurement DfE will using CCS Framework Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) / RM6187. The full programme will contain three strands of work: A. Foster recruitment support hub to improve the journey from enquiry to application and approval across clusters of LAs and establish a pan-local authority approach to fostering recruitment work. This will include a regionally run support hub as well as the standardisation of the approval processes and offer to foster carers in the LAs within this, so there are smooth and consistent processes for managing enquiries handed over by the hub, B. Foster care recruitment communications campaign – to boost the number of quality enquiries and build evidence of effective marketing strategies through a pathfinder communications campaign. C. Retention - to enhance the offer to new applicants and boost retention of existing carers by implementing the evidence-based model ‘Mockingbird’ , which has been found to substantially improve retention. Proposed contract length- June 2023- March 2025 Proposed contract value - £1,000,000 In order to provide further information on the opportunity a market engagement webinar will be held on 21st April 11:00am-12:30pm GMT. This will be an online event hosted through Microsoft Teams platform. To register for the event, you will need to be registered as a supplier on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal, available at https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html Once registered the event will be accessible via the ‘View Opportunities’ link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice ssq_376 and this will directly take you to the registration page.