What Works Centre for Children and Families
Buyer: Department for Education
- Published
- 19 December 2025
- Estimated value
- £85,000,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 084909-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-04fbf4
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 73110000Research services
- 73210000Research consultancy services
- 73300000Design and execution of research and development
- 85311300Welfare services for children and young people
- 79419000Evaluation consultancy services
Description
This is a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families. All information in this notice will be subject to ministerial agreement and internal approval including the estimated funding amount. Reforming children’s social care to keep children safe and give them the best start in life is an important part of the Governments opportunity mission. Improving the evidence base on interventions that work is vital to the success of the reform programme. The department anticipate this grant to be used to generate and champion actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships. This should include: • Becoming a What Works Network member, operating independently and setting a strategy alongside DfE • Having a team of experts in conducting high quality evaluations, translating and disseminating evidence. • Establishing relationships with policy makers and local leaders to establish and support delivery of interventions that work based on high quality evidence. We are looking to share our high level requirements and strategy which would deliver this objective: • collating existing evidence on the effectivenes…
Official publications
- FTS · 084909-2025 · 19 December 2025
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