In each of the children and youth offending services departments within your local authority, please provide the following details:
Who is your current software supplier? for Education Services and Youth Justice
What was the total contract value, as originally contracted?
What was the contract term in years and what is the expiry date?
Are there any planned/optional extension periods, if so how many?
What procurement route was used (e.g. open tender, direct award, framework)
In each of the following service areas:
Statutory Education provision (for recording of DfE data and returns for areas such as admissions, early years, attendance, exclusions, education psychology)
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means). The requested information is already publicly available from this webpage CP2493-24 Education & Learning – Capita ONE – Contracts Finder of the GOV.UK website.
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means). The requested information is already publicly available on these CP2493-24 Education & Learning – Capita ONE – Contracts Finder and CP2349-23 SEND Case Management Solution – Contracts Finder webpages of the GOV.UK website.
Youth Justice (used to manage statutory YJB case management and returns)
Software Supplier – CACI Ltd.
Total Contract Value – £17,456.45 per year
Contract Terms and Expiry Date – yearly, end date November 2026
Planned/optional extension periods – Extended yearly
Procurement route – Direct Award, CACI Ltd. are used by the majority of YJS Services in England
Post-16/NCCIS youth provision (used for returns to DfE for education, training and employment 16+)
Software Supplier – Cognisoft
Total Contract Value – £43,400
Contract Terms and Expiry Date – Initial 2 year agreement start date 1st April 2025. After expiration of initial term the agreement will automatically renew for successive renewal terms of one year.
Planned/optional extension periods – Plan will be to automatically renew annually.
Procurement Route – Confirmed to continue with provider used by organisation as part of TUPE arrangements.
Virtual school (used to record information related to children looked after)
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means). The requested information is already publicly available on this CP2772-26 Virtual School System – Contracts Finder webpage of the GOV.UK website.
Family information service (FIS)/early years/children’s centres (used for early years data/case management and statutory funding)
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means). The requested information is already publicly available on this CP2493-24 Education & Learning – Capita ONE – Contracts Finder webpage of the GOV.UK website.
Statutory schools’ data collection (used to pull in and aggregate data from all school management information systems).
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means). The requested information is already publicly available on this CP2493-24 Education & Learning – Capita ONE – Contracts Finder webpage of the GOV.UK website.