Delivering the Best Start in Life - Delivery Partner

This is a notice seeking early market engagement from interested parties for a Department for Education’s delivery partner procurement to support local authority delivery of Best Start in Life (BSiL). We want to secure a delivery partner that can oversee and drive BSiL and Best Start Family Hub transformation and empower local authorities to: • Lead and drive bold, innovative local system transformation through strong leadership and partnerships, strategically targeting resources, assets, and expertise to maximise impact on early child development and health outcomes. • Deliver ambitious, high quality BSiL and Best Start Family Hub (BSFH) services that improve early child development outcomes for children and families in their local area. • Learn from, develop and share best practice to build local authority capability;; that enabling effective use of data and digital tools; and a combination of tools, resources, tailored group and 1:1 support to enabe effective use of data and digital tools and address challenges in leadership, partnership working, workforce, and specialist areas including speech and language pathways, health integration, access, SEND and data sharing. We welcome suggestions on the most effective procurement approach to ensure value for money is achieved.