Decision details

Family Hubs and Start for Life funding from DfE into Oldham is approx. £1.38m for 2025/26. This is the fourth year of funding as a national initiative which seeks to enhance and connect a range of services that support families at universal and targeted level in deprived local authorities. There is an expectation that the investment will be evaluated. It has been agreed that through a competitive procurement process, an evaluation partner would be commissioned to undertake this work. The allocated Family Hubs budget for evaluation is £67k.

RESOLVED - That: The most economically advantageous bidder would be awarded the contract to deliver the evaluation of the family hubs investment.

Option 1 - To complete a competitive procurement exercise and award a contract to the most economically advantageous bidder.

Option 2 - To not proceed with any evaluation of the family hubs investment and rely solely on output data through existing contract monitoring arrangements. This would not be satisfactory to meet the needs of the DfE requirements, nor would it help with informing future commissioning intentions of understanding which parts of the programmes are most effective or why.

Option 2 - To not proceed with any evaluation of the family hubs investment and rely solely on output data through existing contract monitoring arrangements. This would not be satisfactory to meet the needs of the DfE requirements, nor would it help with informing future commissioning intentions of understanding which parts of the programmes are most effective or why.

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