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What Works Centre for Children and Families

Descriptions

The services relate to a potential procurement of a service provider for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families, subject to ministerial agreement. Under the Opportunity Mission, within the Family Security pillar, reforming children’s social care is critical to keeping children safe. For expected reforms to the children’s social care system to be successful they must be based on high quality evidence of interventions that work. Subject to Ministerial agreement, we would want this service to generate and champion actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships. This should include: Becoming a What Works Network member, operating independently and setting a strategy alongside DfE Having a team of experts in conducting high quality evaluations, translating and disseminating evidence . Establishing relationships with policy makers and local leaders to establish and support delivery of interventions that work based on high quality evidence. We are seeking views on our high level service requirements and strategy which would deliver this objective. We would at a minimum expect the Cabinet Office’s requirement of What Works Centre membership to be met: collating existing evidence on the effectiveness of programmes and practices producing high-quality synthesis reports and systematic reviews in areas where they do not currently exist assessing the effectiveness of policies and practices against an agreed set of outcomes filling gaps in the evidence base by commissioning new trials and evaluations sharing findings in an accessible way supporting practitioners, commissioners and policymakers to use these findings to inform their decisions

Timeline

Published Date :

11th Apr 2025 5 months ago

Deadline :

11th Apr 2026 in a 6 months

Contract Start :

31st Mar 2027

Contract End :

31st Mar 2033

Keywords

research studies

scientific analysis

literature review

knowledge acquisition

academic investigation

project evaluation

data interpretation

exploratory research

technical review

strategic research planning

scientific consulting

academic research advice

evaluation support

proposal refinement

expert review

methodology guidance

field research advisory

data analysis consulting

study design review

research planning

R&D implementation

experimental execution

innovation delivery

technical program management

end-to-end research services

product testing delivery

project coordination

prototype realization

development execution

evaluation consultancy

programme assessment

impact evaluation

monitoring and evaluation

performance appraisal

evaluation studies

assessment support

evaluation reporting

policy evaluation

youth welfare services

child protection support

juvenile counselling

foster care services

children’s residential care

youth mentoring

young persons advice

child advocacy

family support youth

youth social integration

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Status :

Open

Procedure :

N/A

Suitable for SME :

Yes

Nationwide :

No

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Tender Progress :

0%

Details

Notice Type :

PIN

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

Tenderbase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

N/A

Procurement contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk

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