Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) Flexible Framework
- Buyer
- Dumfries and Galloway Council
- Value
- Not published
- Closes
- 13 September 2027
- Where
- Dumfries, Scotland
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Dumfries and Galloway Council is setting up a framework agreement to buy support services for schools receiving Pupil Equity Funding. Schools will use this to contract with providers offering tutoring, counselling, creative activities, mentoring, and family support to help close the poverty-related attainment gap.
What the buyer wants
• Provide one or more of eight service types: counselling and mental health support, creative engagement (music, art, drama), external tutoring and additional academic support, pupil workshops on wellbeing and life skills, parental engagement and family learning, community engagement programmes, mentoring and coaching, or educational assessments • Work directly with pupils, families and communities in schools across Dumfries and Galloway • Deliver services that are targeted at closing attainment gaps linked to poverty and deprivation
Lots
- Counselling, Support & Advice Services
- Creative Engagement
- External Tutors - Additional Support
- Pupil workshops
- Parental Support & Family Learning
- Community Engagement
- Mentoring
- Educational Assessments
- Educational leadership
- Leadership for Pupils
- Developing the Young Workforce
- Out of School Clubs
- Residential
- Miscellaneous Services
- Activity based Learning
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a framework open to multiple providers across many different service types: you will only be disqualified if you lack relevant qualifications, child protection clearance, or cannot evidence experience in the specific service area you are applying for (e.g. if you claim to offer counselling but have no counselling accreditation, or mentoring without youth work experience).
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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