# CR: Foster Care: Delivery Partner/Consultant- CFN

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Department for Education.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [Mutual Ventures Limited](/suppliers/mutual-ventures/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £996,555
- Tender value: £996,555
- Award date: 8 August 2023
- Published: 16 August 2023
- Contract start: 8 August 2023
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 2e9d3ecb-812c-4509-a973-d3f17255608a-672552
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-72a6d1f7-8327-423f-9e07-fcfb96a80c24

## Description

We required a delivery partner to work alongside us and the sector to provide challenge, independent oversight and support to LAs in relation to foster care recruitment support hubs, to ensure that this programme results in real, lasting change\. The delivery partner would provide oversight of the project and leverage regional working at a senior strategic level to establish regional working patterns\. The purpose of a delivery partner is to provide appropriate levels of both challenge and support to LAs to ensure new ways of working are embedded, as well as gathering and sharing insights between groups of LAs on approaches, successes and challenges to bring shared learning to the regions taking part in this programme nationally and inform DfE policy development\. We ran this competition using RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework Three \(MCF3\) Lot 7\. This means that only those who were on the Commercial Agreement Lot 7 could submit a bid in response to the published contract notice\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2e9d3ecb-812c-4509-a973-d3f17255608a-672552)