Department for Education · Awarded contract

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Delivery Partner for Fostering Recruitment and Retention Programme 25-26

Awarded 08 Apr 2025

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Awarded08 Apr 2025

Value£374,520.00

SupplierMutual Ventures Ltd

AgencyDepartment for Education

RegionUnited Kingdom

CategoryConsultancy & Legal

Ended 7mo ago12mo term

Awarded 8 Apr 2025Expired 30 Mar 2026

About

Department for Education awarded a contract to Mutual Ventures Ltd for a delivery partner to provide challenge, independent oversight, and support to local authorities in relation to foster care recruitment support hubs, ensuring the programme results in real, lasting change.

The delivery partner provided oversight of the project and leveraged regional working at a senior strategic level to establish regional working patterns, offering appropriate levels of both challenge and support to local authorities to embed new ways of working, as well as gathering and sharing insights between groups of local authorities on approaches, successes, and challenges to bring shared learning to the regions taking part in this programme nationally and inform DfE policy development.

The competition was run using RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) Lot 7, meaning only those on the Commercial Agreement Lot 7 could submit a bid.

The contract value was AUD 374,520.

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