Contract for legal services for the set up of Sandwell Children's Trust
What the buyer wrote
The intervention policy on response to failure to deliver children's social care services is set out in Putting Children First, published July 2016. There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children's social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so. The report of the Commissioner for Children's Services for Sandwell concluded that the council did not have the capability or capacity to improve it's services. The Secretary of State for Education issued a statutory direction to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council requiring …
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- What the buyer calls it
- Contract for legal services for the set up of Sandwell Children's Trust
- How they are buying
- Called off an existing agreementThe work went to a supplier already on a framework or dynamic market.
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 1 Nov 2017
- Work ends
- 30 Apr 2018
Who the buyer named
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