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Dorset Council

Special Educational Needs (SEN) Outreach Support to Mainstream Schools

EducationCPV 80100000 80300000 80200000 85312000 85321000
Value£211k
Awarded27 Jan 2020
Published13 Dec 2019
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£211ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Education & Training band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Dorset Council currently has a commissioned Outreach Service whose purpose is to provide specialist support to mainstream settings.

The focus of this service is to support only those with the most complex Special Educational Needs (SEN).

The aims of this service include increasing the capacity of schools to support pupils with more complex needs to attend mainstream provision through specialist teaching and advice and support which is individual pupil focussed rather than a generic type of need.

The Provider shall ensure all staff within the Outreach Service have the relevant and appropriate skills and qualifications to ensure they are credible and able to deliver the service effectively.

This will include Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and significant experience of teaching in specialist educational settings as a requirement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Dorset Council currently has a commissioned Outreach

Dorset Council currently has a commissioned Outreach Service whose purpose is to provide specialist support to mainstream settings.

02

The focus of this service is

The focus of this service is to support only those with the most complex Special Educational Needs (SEN).

03

The aims of this service include increasing

The aims of this service include increasing the capacity of schools to support pupils with more complex needs to attend mainstream provision through specialist teaching and advice and support which is individual pupil focussed rather than a generic type of need.

04

The Provider shall ensure all staff within

The Provider shall ensure all staff within the Outreach Service have the relevant and appropriate skills and qualifications to ensure they are credible and able to deliver the service effectively.

05

This will include Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

This will include Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and significant experience of teaching in specialist educational settings as a requirement.

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Source & provenance
OCID
47cdf007-6330-4a92-80c2-5db3a40c1f48
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
DORST001-DN452496-66017424
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