Closed tender

SEND Cluster Model Transformation

Details

Buyer: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Topic: Education and training services
Published: 6 October 2025
Submission: 5 November 2025
Source: uk:procontracts

Tender description

The Children and Families Directorate of Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking to commission a provider to design and deliver a comprehensive SEND School Improvement Programme to support the implementation of the locality-based Cluster Model. This work forms part of the Council’s wider transformation agenda, aligned with the Stoke-on-Trent SEND Strategy and the DSG Deficit Management Plan. The programme will be funded through the Council’s approved Transformation Budget. The aim is to build sustainable capacity within the school system to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND more effectively, reduce reliance on statutory processes and specialist placements, and embed inclusive practice across all settings. Keywords: SEND, Education

Timeline

Completed: Tender published6 October 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date5 November 2025

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

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 Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

80000000 · Education and training services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
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