Step Up To Social Work Cohort 10 Emerging Talent Contractor
This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for the Step Up to Social Work (SUSW) programme and is inviting applications from suitably qualified suppliers to bid for the opportunity to be the contractor to manage the application and assessment process for Cohort 10.
SUSW is an established part of the social work sufficiency pipeline, training high-quality post-graduate students to become qualified, practising social workers.
SUSW is a local authority led, accelerated, practice-focused route into social work.
SUSW commenced in 2010 and runs every 2 years.
There have been 8 completed cohorts to date, training 3,500 Social Workers.
Cohort 9 (640 students) commenced in January 2026 and will complete March 2027.
Programme Scope a) Develop a marketing plan and supporting materials with clear, consistent branding, ensuring alignment across all Regional Partnerships and coherence between…
What the supplier must deliver
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for the Step Up to Social Work (SUSW) programme and is inviting applications from suitably qualified suppliers to bid for the opportunity to be the contractor to manage the application and assessment process for Cohort 10.
Book an appointment for the assessment centre
Book an appointment for the assessment centre, meet and greet and applicant support sessions.
The web portal should allow for at
The web portal should allow for at least 5,000 applications.
I) Support assessment centres in terms
i) Support assessment centres in terms of providing a member of staff to support the RP in checking qualifications/directing people if required.
All communication relating to this procurement must
All communication relating to this procurement must be submitted via the Jaggaer portal.
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