Procurement Summary
Country: United Kingdom
Summary: Fostering Recruitment Digital Solutions
Deadline: 05 Jul 2026
Posting Date: 22 May 2026
Other Information
Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 141815731
Document Ref. No.: Project_10370
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
CPV Classification
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people
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As announced in Renewing Fostering: homes for 10, 000 more children, the Department for Education (DfE) is exploring how digital solutions can support the successful onboarding of prospective foster carers, to minimise drop-off points caused by delays in communication about progress and outcomes, and enable richer data on fostering recruitment through to approvals to support decision-making at a local and national level. To deliver on the ambitious plan, we have engaged with the market to seek the development of an end-to-end digital solution that can: • Provide clear expectations of a standardised recruitment process across data and operating expectations. • Enable the gathering of rich and consistent data on the Hub fostering recruitment process and pipeline, supporting effective data sharing between DfE, Hubs, local authorities and other relevant agencies, and helping to better target interventions and efforts where they are most needed. • Create platforms and infrastructure to allow prospective foster carers to make an application and manage it throughout the fostering application process, from initial enquiry to approval (this may include making contact with their fostering service, booking appointments and monitoring the progress of their application online). • Provide a solution to help Fostering Hubs and local authorities to manage prospective foster carers through the application process through real-time insights and by engaging relevant agencies to support the onboa...
[Disclaimer: For this notice no specific deadline was given hence we have added 45 Days from the date of posting]
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