What the buyer wrote
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children's social care services. This is done in part through drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances. Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children's services, the Department initiates steps to secure improvement, with a presumption that this will best be achieved by removing the service from council control. An independent Children's Services Commissioner is appointed by the Secretary o…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Children's Services Commissioner
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Mar 2017
- Work ends
- 9 Jun 2017
Who the buyer named
Eben Groenewald was the named contact on this notice.