Attendance Mentors pilot expansion

Tender description

The Department for Education is seeking to appoint a Supplier to deliver targeted, responsive, one-to-one support for at least 10,800 persistently and severely absent pupils across 10 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIA). The successful Supplier would be expected to train mentors to be able to support pupils and families on a one-to-one basis with the intention of understanding barriers to the pupils attendance and supporting the pupil and family to resolve this. This support should be responsive to the individuals needs and may be delivered in the school, or in the pupil’s home. Depending on the pupil need, trained practitioners may also be expected to work with external local agencies to ensure all support to a particular family or pupil is aligned and drives towards overcoming attendance barriers. Mentor work could also involve working closely with families to support better engagement in education. The successful Supplier will also need to work with evaluators to evidence the impact of the support throughout the project lifecycle.  To register your interest to tender and view the tender documents, 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 information will be accessible via the ‘View Opportunities’ link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice for Attendance Mentors Pilot Expansion; (ITT_2848) and this will take you directly to the live tender. The closing date for submitting your tender is 2pm 25th March 2024. A Bidder Engagement Event will be held on Tuesday 5th March 2024 14:30 - 15:30 to provide an overview of the procurement requirements. This will be an online event hosted on Microsoft Teams. To register for the event please confirm the name of your organisation, name of attendee and email address via the Jaggaer messaging forum by 12pm NOON 4th March 2024. The invite will be circulated the day before the event.