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East Midlands Children’s Improvement Adviser (CIA) with notice

Open United Kingdom Health & social work

Buyer Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)

14 days left

Key facts

Closes
17:00 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€49,575
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 14 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

14 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

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This buyer usually gives 20 days (median of its last 12 calls for tender).

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Summary

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The Local Government Association (LGA) is procuring an East Midlands regional Children's Improvement Adviser to support its leadership programme for children's services in councils, in particular children's social care and SEND. The adviser will work with LGA improvement advisers, build relationships with councils and corporate and political leaders, support regional improvement and innovation alliances, provide constructive challenge, identify and assist councils at risk of failure, broker improvement strategies and share best practice. Bidders must have recent experience as a statutory Director of Children's Services. Services run from November 2026 to 31 March 2027, with an option to extend by one year. Payment is a fixed daily rate of £700 excluding VAT, plus reasonable travel and accommodation.

Description

The LGA delivers a programme of children’s services leadership support to councils and corporate and political leaders. To support delivery of the LGA’s programme of children’s services leadership support to councils and corporate or political leaders through provision of associate support to councils, specifically (but not exclusively) in children’s social care and SEND. Bidders must have had recent experience as a statutory Director of Children’s Services The East Midlands regional Children’s Improvement Adviser will be required to: Work closely with the LGA children’s improvement advisors who focus on SEND and corporate leadership to ensure a coherent offer of support. Build a wider understanding of the LGAs improvement support to ensure a coherent and co-ordinated offer to councils. Develop strong relationships with councils and corporate and political leaders in a region to build a clear understanding of need in children’s services, to support leadership, identify innovative solutions, broker improvement strategies, and ensure they are delivered. Build a direct relationship with the regional improvement and innovation alliances (RIIAs) in terms of strategic planning, intervention and resources, and to provide support and challenge to the delivery of regional plans. Provide constructive challenge to local and regional approaches and priorities. Identify and support councils at risk of failure. Work with the LGA’s children’s improvement team to commission additional capacity and expertise to improve services for children. Ensure best practice and learning is shared. (Greater detail of the Services are set out in attached draft contract in Appendix 2). Contract dates: The date for commencement of the Services is: November 2026 The date for completion of the Services is: 31 March 2027, with the option to review and extend for an additional 1 year Price payable: This Purchaser will pay a daily rate of £700 excluding VAT, which is fixed. Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses will also be paid in line with LGA policies. Up to 60 days per year (pro rata) will be allocated up to the completion date of 31 March 2027. This represents a maximum annual contract value of £42,000 (exclusive of VAT), pro rata. To apply: To submit a bid please find link below to the LGA procurement platform, you will need to register an account first (see bottom link 'Register'). With any navigational or uploading issues please contact the platform's help team Email: support@panacea-software.com Telephone: 0207 976 0116.

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    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €49,575.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Health & social work.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    14 days left, 10 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €55,137 and €437,208.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 17 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

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  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 259 awards for Health & social work in United Kingdom.

This notice
€49,575
Median award
€129,724
Middle half of past awards
€55,137 to €437,208

The estimate is smaller than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)

United Kingdom

notices in the register
17
awards
4

Who wins its contracts

of its calls state an estimated value
83%

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Health & social work - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
CARE LINE HOMECARE LIMITED 28 €1.9M Sep 2026
SPRINGFIELD HOME CARE SERVICES LIMITED 22 €1.6M Sep 2026
People Asset Management Ltd 8 €2.8M Aug 2026
ID MEDICAL GROUP LIMITED 7 €524,843 Oct 2026
18 Week Support Limited 5 €728,858 Sep 2026

Based on 555 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

4 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 17% of the open notices in Health & social work across Europe.

open now in Health & social work
2,356
median open notice
€479,150

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Health & social work

different companies won awards here
431
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%
buyers awarded contracts here
208

Based on 547 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Status
    Was: Closed
    Now: Open
  2. Status
    Was: Open
    Now: Closed
  3. Status
    Was: Closed
    Now: Open
  4. Status
    Was: Open
    Now: Closed
  5. Read before bidding
    Estimated value
    Was: €49,393
    Now: €49,575

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