Children's Services Advisers in Birmingham and Sunderland

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children's social care services.

DfE wishes to appoint a small team of Advisers to carry out and deliver operational and strategic reviews, improvements, support and challenge in Birmingham and Sunderland. The Adviser teams will provide a clear and sustained focus on the areas for improvement and ensure independent oversight of progress in line with agreed improvement plans. In doing so the Advisers are expected to supervise the programme of change that the authority has embarked on, to drive forward the improvements and implement close monitoring arrangements, and build on the work that has already taken place.

Additional information: Bidders interested in this requirement should be aware that they must allow at least 6 full working days before the competition closing date of 9am on 21 August 2017. This is to complete your registration on the Department for Education's, Dynamic Purchasing System. Incomplete registrations will not be accepted. Bidders who are already fully registered on the Department for Educations Dynamic Purchasing system do not have to re-register. Bids already submitted can be withdrawn from the competition, or updated as long as this happened before the deadline.

The contract period will be 12 months from start date for Birmingham and 6 months for Sunderland.

The maximum contract value is Birmingham - £54,000 Sunderland - £20,800.