Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Mayors Office for Policing And Crime
Union Street
London
SE10LL
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKI - London
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other type
Mayors Office For Policing & Crime
one.5) Main activity
Public order and safety
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Children's Rights in Education *Soft Market Testing*
Reference number
Children's Rights in Education *Soft Market Testing*
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Violence Reduction Unit will be running a Soft Market Testing exercise from 26 October 2023 to 1st November 2023 @ 16:00. This is a PIN Notice to gauge interest from the market and to gather information from interested suppliers. If you are interested in the opportunity, then please email vruprocurement@london.gov.uk and you will be asked to fill in a short survey.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £1,400,000
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
- UKI - London
Main site or place of performance
The Violence Reduction Unit is running a Soft Market Testing exercise from 26 October to 1 November to better understand the market.
The Violence Reduction Unit is seeking to commission a provider who can help us promote and embed children's rights in all schools across London. The service will be a rights-based, whole school improvement programme, centred around an accreditation directly linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This service will provide training, resources, tailored support and an accreditation to schools, providing a framework to embed children's rights strategically and practically into a school context.
It is important that the service delivered is sufficiently flexible to adapt to the context of the boroughs it is being delivered in, and is sustainable.
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The service needs to build the capacity of staff to embed children's rights within and across schools. To this end, the provider would also be expected to work with all London boroughs, to develop local Children's Rights Steering Groups that would build local support networks and communities of schools, who can share learnings and best practice with each other. Steering group members will be trained to become assessors of the accreditation, capacity building and futureproofing the sustainability of the service locally.
The successful provider will be expected to have a robust evidence base of the impact on systems change within schools as a result of their rights-based school accreditation programme. Other eligibility and core capabilities will include knowledge of and experience working within the London education landscape, including working with primary, and secondary schools; extensive experience and expertise delivering a rights-based school improvement accreditation directly linked to the UNCRC; capacity to deliver services across several boroughs and hundreds of schools simultaneously; substantial experience working effectively with local authorities and multi-academy trusts.
Rationale -
Working in education is a priority for London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). Building a rights respecting culture within and among schools has the potential for significant and positive long-term influence on developing a strong culture of inclusion for young people and their communities. Whilst also, contributing to the violence reduction agenda offering a unifying and cohesive thread of child rights through all other initiative relating to safety, wellbeing, voice, and participation.
When children know about their rights, they are empowered to claim them and to understand others have rights too. This is important because it leads to a myriad of other positive gains in equipping both young people and adults with a shared language for conflict resolution leading to improved capacity for resolving disputes and increased feelings of safety. Living and learning through rights inspires pupils to a deeper sense of engagement in their school and their community. Children have an improved respect for themselves and for others, leading to greater appreciation of diversity. Creating a shared language of rights and respect improves a child's sense of belonging to a school community, increasing wellbeing, and self-esteem. At a school level, this approach leads to better attendance, behaviour, relationships between students, and between students and staff, improvements to safeguarding, and ultimately a reduction in suspensions and exclusionary practice.
For all these reasons the Violence Reduction Unit's vision for safe and inclusive schools places children's rights at the centre, as one of the foundations, to achieving its aim to promote healthy relationships and inclusive practices to reduce exclusions and disengagement with education.
Budget -
The maximum budget for this service is £1,400,000 over 4 years.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
13 November 2023
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: No