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Procurement of a pool of Children’s Social Care Expert Advisers (EAs), who will replace the use of Commissioners and Advisers, under Lot 14 of the Educational and Children's Social Care Professionals (ECSC) Dynamic Franework
As a government, we believe reforming children’s social care is central to ensuring children have the best possible start in life. We are delivering the most significant overhaul of the system in a generation, with an unwavering ambition to reform children’s social care and achieve better outcomes for children.
To help drive the required changes and service improvements we need to see, in 2026 we will be simplifying the department’s improvement and intervention support to local authorities and aligning it with children’s social care reform priorities.
The Expert Adviser (EA) role is a challenging and wide ranging one which is pivotal to the success of our new approach to intervention. EAs will work for, and represent the DfE, drive forward our reforms including our recently published Enduring Relationships Strategy Enduring relationships - GOV.UK, the Families First Partnership Programme (FFP) and the implementation of care reform, and be directed to work with failing LAs. They will hold Secretary of State “powers to direct” set out by a statutory direction or improvement notice.
The EA will work within a Dynamic framework (Established under PCR2015) initially undertaking an in-depth diagnostic (of approx. 40 days) of CSC services and work with DfE regional teams to broker a suitable CSC Improvement Team (CIT) based on the diagnostics findings. Once agreed and funding signed off, the EA, CIT and intervention LA will produce a single, authoritative Central Improvement Plan (CIP), to be approved by the LA owned Improvement Board.
To effectively establish a cohort of experienced sector experts, we are looking to partner with individuals who can work closely with us to lead on the following elements (please note this list is not...
As a government, we believe reforming children’s social care is central to ensuring children have the best possible start in life. We are delivering the most significant overhaul of the system in a generation, with an unwavering ambition to reform children’s social care and achieve better outcomes for children.
To help drive the required changes and service improvements we need to see, in 2026 we will be simplifying the department’s improvement and intervention support to local authorities and aligning it with children’s social care reform priorities.
The Expert Adviser (EA) role is a challenging and wide ranging one which is pivotal to the success of our new approach to intervention. EAs will work for, and represent the DfE, drive forward our reforms including our recently published Enduring Relationships Strategy Enduring relationships - GOV.UK, the Families First Partnership Programme (FFP) and the implementation of care reform, and be directed to work with failing LAs. They will hold Secretary of State “powers to direct” set out by a statutory direction or improvement notice.
The EA will work within a Dynamic framework (Established under PCR2015) initially undertaking an in-depth diagnostic (of approx. 40 days) of CSC services and work with DfE regional teams to broker a suitable CSC Improvement Team (CIT) based on the diagnostics findings. Once agreed and funding signed off, the EA, CIT and intervention LA will produce a single, authoritative Central Improvement Plan (CIP), to be approved by the LA owned Improvement Board.
To effectively establish a cohort of experienced sector experts, we are looking to partner with individuals who can work closely with us to lead on the following elements (please note this list is not...
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| Issuing agency | Department for Education |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Category | Government Procurement |
| Estimated value | $0 |
| Published | July 17, 2026 |
| Procurement stage | Request for Proposal (RFP) |
| Response due | August 14, 2026 |
| Status | Open — accepting responses |
| Official source | View original notice |
| Last verified | August 09, 2026 |
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