Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
Education
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
National Multi-Agency Child Safeguarding Facilitator
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 80000000 - Education and training services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Department for Education is seeking to engage the market to discuss a dedicated Facilitator role to support multi-agency safeguarding partnerships to implement government reforms to child protection and safeguarding. This role will play a key part in supporting the Department in delivering reforms through engagement at local and national level by working with the other Facilitators and local areas to provide support. This also includes engaging with and supporting the Families First Partnership (FFP) programme to implement reforms to Family Help, multi-agency child protection, family networks and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements nationally.
We are looking for an individual who understands and has experience of working in local government at a senior level, in particular multi-agency safeguarding for children and local safeguarding partnerships.
We expect the work to be a maximum of 10 days per month.
A market engagement session will take place on the 27th February at 2pm. Please contact James Drew at james.drew@education.gov.uk if interested.
Please note we do not currently know the route to market we will choose. We will use feedback from the session to help inform our position on this. We expect the contract to be around one year in length, with potential extension options.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 80000000 - Education and training services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Department for Education is seeking to engage the market to discuss a dedicated Facilitator role to support multi-agency safeguarding partnerships to implement government reforms to child protection and safeguarding. This role will play a key part in supporting the Department in delivering reforms through engagement at local and national level by working with the other Facilitators and local areas to provide support. This also includes engaging with and supporting the Families First Partnership (FFP) programme to implement reforms to Family Help, multi-agency child protection, family networks and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements nationally.
We are looking for an individual who understands and has experience of working in local government at a senior level, in particular multi-agency safeguarding for children and local safeguarding partnerships.
We expect the work to be a maximum of 10 days per month.
A market engagement session will take place on the 27th February at 2pm. Please contact James Drew at james.drew@education.gov.uk if interested.
Please note we do not currently know the route to market we will choose. We will use feedback from the session to help inform our position on this. We expect the contract to be around one year in length, with potential extension options.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
3 March 2025
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes