Children's Rights in Education *Soft Market Testing*

Children's Rights in Education *Soft Market Testing* Description of the service - The Violence Reduction Unit will be running a Soft Market Testing exercise from 26 October 2023 to 1 November 2023 @ 16:00.

This is an early engagement notice to gauge interest from the market and to gather information from interested suppliers.

If you are interested in the opportunity, then please email vruprocurement@london.gov.uk and you will be asked to fill in a short survey.

The Violence Reduction Unit is seeking to commission a provider who can help us promote and embed children's rights in all schools across London.

The service will be a rights-based, whole school improvement programme, centred around an accreditation directly linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

This service will provide training, resources, tailored support and an accreditation to schools, providing a framework to embed children's rights strategically and practically into a school context.

It is important that the service delivered is sufficiently flexible to adapt to the context of the boroughs it is being delivered in, and is sustainable.

The service needs to build the capacity of staff to embed children's rights within and across schools.

To this end, the provider would also be expected to work with all London boroughs, to develop local Children's Rights Steering Groups that would build local support networks and communities of schools, who can share learnings and best practice with each other.

Steering group members will be trained to become assessors of the accreditation, capacity building and futureproofing the sustainability of the service locally.

The successful provider will be expected to have a robust evidence base of the impact on systems change within schools as a result of their rights-based school accreditation programme.

Other eligibility and core capabilities will include knowledge of and experience working within the London education landscape, including working with primary, and secondary schools; extensive experience and expertise delivering a rights-based school improvement accreditation directly linked to the UNCRC; capacity to deliver services across several boroughs and hundreds of schools simultaneously; substantial experience working effectively with local authorities and multi-academy trusts.