CR: Children and Young People's Advisory Board for Children's Social Care

Tender description

This PIN is for market engagement only. It does not signify the commencement of any procurement process and does not constitute any commitment by the Department for Education. If the Department for Education decides to commence any procurement process as contemplated by this notice, a separate notice will be published at the relevant time. The requirements and values set out below may be subject to change. The Government's strategy for transforming children's social care - Stable Homes, Built on Love, was published on 2 February 2023 alongside a consultation on its proposals which closed on 11 May 2023. As part of this strategy, we are committed to ensuring children and young people's voices are heard and fed into policy thinking and delivery as it develops. Alongside publishing the strategy, we publicly committed to creating an advisory board of young advisors from whom ministers and policy officials can seek input and steers on next steps in delivering on the strategy. We are committed to ensuring the board has a meaningful and genuine impact, with a clear feedback loop to demonstrate where advice has been considered and acted upon. We also want the board to have access to decision makers who can hear their views first hand and to make it a development opportunity for the children and young people involved, as well as it informing our work. To effectively establish a children and young people's advisory board, we are looking to partner with an organisation who specialises in participation and who can work closely with us to lead on the following elements (please note this list is not exhaustive): - Establish the children and young people's advisory board, including recruitment, management of any expenses and renumeration for the board's time as well as appropriately safeguarding children and young people throughout the recruitment process and their time on the advisory board. - Facilitate the board meetings in a way that encourages children and young people to take a lead role in chairing and presenting items for discussion (where appropriate) and to provide coaching for the board on how to operate in a professional context. - Provide all necessary pastoral support to the children and young people on the board before and after meetings and be a point of contact between meetings. - Create, host and manage an online presence for the board which showcases their work and impact. - Work collaboratively with the team leading this work at DfE most especially to define topics for the board to discuss and to ensure the need for input prior to policy and delivery deadlines are met. We will hold an initial market engagement session to talk about the service requirements and seek feedback from the sector in w/c 26 June. Following this initial market engagement session, we will offer 30-minute 1-2-1 meetings w/c 10 July. A question and answer log will be circulated after all sessions have taken place via the commercial Jaggaer system.