Expired contract

Northamptonshire Children's Trust - Valuing Care Children Services Project

Details

Value
£750,000
Duration
1 year
Topic
Research and development consultancy services
Published
29 February 2024

Tender description

Deliver activity and principles for continued support, with a particular focus on sustainability and embedding the Valuing Care approach within practice, process and commissioning. Provide support to realise the full benefits of the Valuing Care approach and to embed this systemically through children's services. Critically support to help establish the conditions and foundations for the trusts to sustain the approaches delivered without external support. To support the Trust to: • Embed Valuing Care in practice, process and commissioning, ensuring that care and support matches the need of children and young people and that they are supported to live in suitable homes. • Embed processes to enable systemic identification of children and young people who can benefit from targeted intervention, on an ongoing basis. • Establish a process for collating Valuing Care data at a system level to inform and strengthen strategic decision making on commissioning and sufficiency • Strengthen sufficiency within foster care to enable opportunities for step down from residential care (currently 18 children and young people in residential care have been identified as would benefit from family homes, but no fostering placements immediately available).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published29 February 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 March 2024
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date28 February 2025

About the buyer

North Northamptonshire Council is a unitary local authority that runs procurement through its own dedicated in-house team. Larger contracts are advertised publicly through the government's Find a Tender service once they pass a set value threshold. Suppliers register and submit their bids electronically through the council's e-procurement portal, ProContract. Smaller purchases are sourced through written quotations, with a clear preference for suppliers based locally. Mid-value contracts move through a more formal request-for-quotation process ahead of any public advertising. A public contracts register lists every active agreement the council currently holds with its suppliers.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of North Northamptonshire Council's contract awards have been in construction work, business services and health and social work.

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  • 73200000 · Research and development consultancy services

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