# Provision of Chair of the Children's Services Trust in Northamptonshire

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: J Wooster Services
- Award value: £96,000
- Tender value: £96,000
- Award date: 2 April 2024
- Published: 22 April 2024
- Contract start: 2 April 2024
- Contract end: 31 March 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 9c0d2216-18c3-4a9a-b92e-ed8f8e067542-742927
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-11704656-5925-4123-ac1a-8188ce35a7d1

## Description

The Department for Education have awarded a contract for the provision \(continuation\) of the Independent Chair to the Northamptonshire Children's Service Trust\. Throughout the appointment period the contractor will: - Provide strategic leadership to the Company\. This will include: o Setting a continued ambitious vision for improvement and innovation\. o Continued strategic approach for the Board's leadership in order to perform its core functions effectively\. o Continue to develop the Board's strategic priorities that reflect the Company's strategic priorities\. - Supporting and guiding the Board to ensure the transparent selection appointment, assessment and \(should it prove necessary\) the removal of directors, or any other direct appointee\. - Oversee institutional performance\. - Supporting and guiding the Board in sound financial management of the Company\. - Reporting on performance, and such other matters as the Department may request\. - Acting as the principal spokesperson and representative for the Board, advocating, and promoting the work of the Company in social work, social care, education and corporate settings\. - Fulfil procedural role in the operating of the Company\. This will include - chairing and leading all Board meetings, strategy reviews and other such meetings\. - In accordance with the Company's governance procedures acting on behalf of the board between board meetings to make immediate decisions\. - Provide regular verbal and written reports to the Secretary of State, the Minister for Children and Families and other officials\. - Participate in DfE's formal reviews of the LAs progress and make recommendation to the DfE on whether progress has been sufficient\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9c0d2216-18c3-4a9a-b92e-ed8f8e067542-742927)