United Kingdom-Nottingham: Education and training services – Framework Lead

The current contract for Education and training services – Framework Lead is projected to end on 22-SEP-21 and may be available for retender. Initial Training For Educational Psychologists (ITEP) (RFx101).
The NCTL is an executive agency of the Department for Education (the Department / DfE). It has responsibility, on behalf of The Secretary of State for Education, for ensuring the supply of high-quality teachers and training and for teacher regulation, delivering policy for teachers and instructors; those working in Early Years; classroom-based school support staff; special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs); educational psychologists and examination officers.
The priority to ‘commission post-graduate doctoral qualification training for educational psychologists’ is laid out in the NCTL Business plan for 2015-16.
The Children and Families Act (2014) gave educational psychologists an extended remit to work with children and young people 0-25 years plus young offenders. It also placed a statutory duty on the profession, to provide psychological input into the new Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans.
The new contract
The contract with the incumbent supplier expires on 31.8.2015 and a new contract is being tendered to enable recruitment activity from September 2015 of a new intake for academic year 2016/17.
NCTL is therefore seeking a national training provider(s) to:
– deliver the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) accredited (or equivalent) doctorate level, initial training for educational psychologists to ensure a continual flow of newly qualified educational psychologists to the workforce in England.
– the programme will run on a 3 year cycle, and will include, year one university based with short practice placements, in years two and three trainees will work in an educational psychology service, alongside a senior educational psychologists on practice placement.
– the successful contractor (s) will need to deliver a continual supply of newly qualified educational psychologists to the workforce in England until 2019-20, with an option to for an additional intake from September 18 to be completed by 2021 subject to The Secretary of State priorities. This means:
– recruitment of 150 trainees on to ITEP in England starting in 2016 and a further intake of 150 starting in 2017
– the provision of high quality practice placements, that meet the HCPC and professions Practice Placement Partnership Framework standards, for all ITEP NCTL funded trainees in all 3 years as per course requirements.
– A regional spread of training provision across the north, midlands and southern (including London) England.
NCTL may also require the recruitment and delivery of an additional intake covering the period 2018 to 2021 subject to continued Government/Ministerial support and funding, plus the satisfactory delivery of the programme and its outcomes in line with agreed key performance indicators and service level agreements. Recruitment for this intake would start in September 2017 with delivery starting in August 2018 and finishing in August 2021 and your bidding organisations must be able to commit to delivery of this requirement should NCTL exercise its right under the Contract to request it.
This contract is being advertised under the ‘Light Touch Regime’.
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