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Department for Education

The Fosterline Service Contract Award - CFN

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71356300
Value£704k
Awarded12 Apr 2023
Published12 Jul 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£704ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Fosterline Service Award Notice The Fosterline Service is a free, independent national advice service that offers support for both current and prospective foster carers.

It has been in place since 2006, funded by the Department of Education.

During that time, the Department also increased the scope of Fosterline from responding to ad hoc enquiries to offering individualised ongoing services for current or prospective foster carers requiring help with ongoing issues or detailed tax and benefits advice.

The services aim to support foster families to stay together during times of crisis, reducing placement breakdown, and avoiding costs associated with this.

The current service is widely used, with over 108,000 contacts (through the helpline service, 1-2-1s, web-chats, emails, website visits etc )in the year 2021-22.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Fosterline Service is a free, independent

The Fosterline Service is a free, independent national advice service that offers support for both current and prospective foster carers.

02

The services aim to support foster families

The services aim to support foster families to stay together during times of crisis, reducing placement breakdown, and avoiding costs associated with this.

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Source & provenance
OCID
01adb314-f290-47b5-b4da-4477265727d7
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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