# Consultancy for the redesign of the EHCP service in Children Services SEND

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Gloucestershire County Council](/buyers/gloucestershire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Peopletoo Limited](/contract-winners/peopletoo/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £115,080
- Tender value: £115,080
- Award date: 4 April 2021
- Published: 14 April 2021
- Contract start: 14 April 2021
- Contract end: 12 April 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: e763da28-68ef-4fc6-a279-ca026c4f9e2e-428553
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6aaebc38-f734-40f3-a6c4-65c06acaf39c

## Description

The consultant shall undertake the implementation of the signed-off EHCP proposal and recommendations for a redesign of the service and the pathway development in line with requirements set out below\.\\r \\r Governance\\r • Adhere to the governance arrangements of the programme to ensure sign off at each stage of the service redesign\. \\r • Attend the Spend Redesign project boards every 6-8 weeks, and present to the programme board and leadership teams as required\. \\r • Provide status reports and briefings to inform the project/programme highlight reports\. \\r \\r Stakeholder management \\r • Engage with the SROs of the JAN & High Needs Transformation Programme, the programme team and workstream leads to develop an understanding of the local context of work and in particular the JHNTP objectives\.\\r • Engage and drive change by gaining buy-in and ownership of the EHCP team through a collaborative and coproduction approach\.\\r • Engage users of the service to ensure the pathway development of the service redesign is coproduced\. \\r • Communicate with the wider Children Services directorate throughout the contract period the developments in the service changes and utilising the existing web channels, webinar forums and boards\. \\r Interdependencies\\r • Coordinate the interdependencies of the Banded Funding initiative and integrate the Graduated Pathway to the EHCP redesign to enable early intervention\. \\r • Thresholds for agreeing to assess and for agreeing to place into special and independent special schools\.\\r • Contributions of social care and health to plans\\r • Volume of Tribunals/reason for these and position of the LA and quality of defensible position\.\\r Digitalisation\\r • Optimise digitalisation of case work and the service as a whole whilst ensuring integration to the wider system and interfaces\. \\r • Integration of a compliance module to the EHCP Capita1 system for statutory requirements to be digitalised\. \\r Evaluation and outcomes framework \\r • Benchmark other local authorities EHCP services for innovation and new approaches to inform and shape the re-design including regional and national scoping to measure GCC position against other LA's in terms of plans, costs, approach\.\\r • Establish the baseline data and onward meaningful data dashboards for the service, including appropriate benchmarking tools against the national profile, including forecasting of emerging trends\. \\r • Establish a performance management and competencies framework for the service that aligns to PDRs and training requirements and engenders a child centred approach\. \\r • Identify knowledge and skills gaps and arrange the delivery of any relevant training\. \\r • Establish an evaluation, quality assurance, and continuous improvement cycle and approach for the EHCP service\.\\r \\r 2\. Detailed deliverables\\r \\r EHCP Pathway Redesign\\r • Redesign the EHCP pathway from assessment through to planning and review, removing unnecessary steps, improving communication flow, and ensuring that the voice of the child, yo

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e763da28-68ef-4fc6-a279-ca026c4f9e2e-428553)