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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
Who to contact
procurement@islington.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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.

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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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