Fostering Recruitment and Retention Programme Delivery Partner 25-26
Department for Education · awarded 9 April 2025
Who
| Buyer | Department for Education Darlington |
|---|---|
| Supplier |
Mutual Ventures Ltd |
| Category | services |
| Classification | Business and management consultancy services CPV 79410000 |
| Notice published | 22 April 2025 |
What it is for
We required a delivery partner to work alongside us and the sector to provide challenge, independent oversight and support to LAs in relation to foster care recruitment support hubs, to ensure that this programme results in real, lasting change. The delivery partner would provide oversight of the project and leverage regional working at a senior strategic level to establish regional working patterns. The purpose of a delivery partner is to provide appropriate levels of both challenge and support to LAs to ensure new ways of working are embedded, as well as gathering and sharing insights between groups of LAs on approaches, successes and challenges to bring shared learning to the regions taking part in this programme nationally and inform DfE policy development. We ran this competition using RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) Lot 7. This means that only those who were on the Commercial Agreement Lot 7 could submit a bid in response to the published contract notice.
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