Realigning Children's Services (RCS) — Strategic Commissioning Data Programme.

Descriptions

The Scottish Government Directorate for Children and Families (DCAF), Care and Justice Division wish to set up a single contract framework agreement to facilitate the procurement of the Realigning Children's Services (RCS) Evidence Programme.The single contract framework agreement is to run from 20.4.2015 until 19.4.2017 with the capacity for call offs to provide the RCS Evidence Programme for up to 6 Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) during this timescale.Under the single contract framework agreement, the RCS Evidence Programme involves making available and supporting the implementation of:(1) A parent-report household survey measuring the wellbeing of children and associated influences from birth to 8 years(2) A school-based child-report wellbeing survey for children aged 9-11 (P5-P7)(3) Analysis and reporting of:(i) the findings from parent survey(ii) the findings from the P5-P7 survey(iii) the findings from a Local Authority Boost (S1-S4) ofhe Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance UseSurvey(SALSUS)(iv) linked data from Local Authority Administration dataset.The delivery of the RCS Evidence Programme is structured around two fieldwork periods within school the year when schools generally accept access (determined by the school term and the timing of exams). These are March-May and September — November. Therefore three fieldwork periods are available in this contract period. Participation will be limited to up to three CPPs per fieldwork period. This means that up to three CPP's can start participating in the programme in Spring 2015 to use the September — November 2015 fieldwork period, CPPs joining in the Summer 2015 can take advantage of the March-May 2016 fieldwork period and those joining later can use the September — November 2016 fieldwork period. The fieldwork for SALSUS 2015 is also scheduled to take place during the autumn term 2015 and completed by the end of January 2016.