Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13cb9-8d2f-73bd-8103-ba7dad35361d/facilitator-for-people-with-lived-experience-of-care-engaging-the-un-engaged awarded GB negotiated without publication procedure Suitable for SMEs # Facilitator for people with lived experience of care - Engaging the un-engaged [Department for Education](https://tendernation.io/buyers/department-for-education) Estimated value £24,975 Published 21 Dec 2023 Deadline Closed 1 Feb 2023 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Buyer says suitable for VCSEs The buyer ticked “suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises” on the notice. - Small contract value Valued under £135,018 including VAT, the lowest Procurement Act threshold for goods and services. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender On the week of 23rd May, the previous Minister for Children and Families announced the actions we are taking now to improve children's social care, including the publication of an implementation strategy, as well as: Working with local authorities to boost efforts to recruit more foster carers, ensuring children have access to the right placements at the right time; Refocussing the support for social workers in the early part of their careers, particularly to enhance their skills and knowledge in child protection; Joining up data from across the public sector to increase transparency - both between safeguarding partners and to the wider public; Develop a National Children's Social Care Framework, which will set direction for the system and point everyone to the best available evidence. The recommendations in these reports are ambitious, complex and wide-ranging, and we must consider them carefully. The Department has committed to engaging with those with lived experience of care as well as the sector to inform our work on implementation and ensure our reforms truly deliver for our vulnerable children and their families. The Department has run a separate exercise with key children's charities to co-create with the department sessions to engage with those with lived experience of the care system. Alongside, we keen to appoint an organisation to work with us specifically on reaching those groups who are harder to engage and who may not be easily be covered by our wider engagement work. We are looking for a bidder who understands and has previous experience of the workings of children's social care and in particular of those with lived experience of the care system. This post is an essential role in implementing the new children's social care reforms. The post holder will facilitate and run, virtually or face to face, effective, inclusive sessions and engagement with people with lived experience of the care system, to support them to feed in views and influence implementation of reforms. Each session will have a specific focus on various aspects of the reform implementation- to be confirmed in partnership with the DfE. The initial contract duration is 12 months to align with the proposed consultation periods. Read full description ## CPV classification Health and social work services Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/5f356446-2e31-4ee4-8e57-1ef86b9fdbef) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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