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OpenStage · planning

Islington Council

Step Up to Social Work Cohort 10 +

EducationCPV 80400000
Value£1.1m
Deadline
Published12 Mar 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£1.1mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Islington Council is acting as the lead authority in a regional partnership of six London boroughs across North, Central and East London who will be seeking a grant from the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver Step Up to Social Work – Cohort 10.

The NCEL RP has already delivered Cohorts 5 – 9 of the Step Up Programme.

We are seeking to appoint a Higher Education Institution (HEI) to be the delivery partner of the academic learning with the option to extend this contract as per DfE funding for Cohorts 11 and 12.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Islington Council is acting as the lead

Islington Council is acting as the lead authority in a regional partnership of six London boroughs across North, Central and East London who will be seeking a grant from the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver Step Up to Social Work.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06682d
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
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Buyer ref
022238-2026
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