Tender: Digital PEP Platform with Real‑Time Attendance Monitoring and Outcome Tracking for Children in Care

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The council's Virtual School is seeking a supplier for a comprehensive digital solution that provides real-time attendance monitoring and same-day absence verification for children in the council's care, a secure web portal to co-create and manage Personal Education Plans (PEPs) with staff, carers and social workers, and analytics, strategic dashboards and longitudinal outcome tracking (attendance, engagement, attainment, progress) aligned to Ofsted expectations and Virtual School statutory duties. The solution must meet DfE approval/authorisation requirements and all relevant UK government standards for access, security and data protection, demonstrably support the Virtual School's statutory responsibilities for looked-after children (LAC) and extend to related cohorts (e.g., children with a social worker, kinship) as the remit evolves. Bidders must explicitly address a current critical gap: pupil outcome tracking is largely manual despite existing attendance tracking and PEP creation with dashboards.