# Project to find innovative approaches to early years partnerships\.

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department For Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Family and Childcare Trust
- Award value: £125,000
- Tender value: £125,000
- Award date: 7 March 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 March 2016
- Contract end: 31 July 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: f2ebfd33-0644-4796-8a40-97316f0dc330-116576
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-36d8396f-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The government is aware that partnership working is likely to be an important feature of the delivery of the 30 hours entitlement, and the project proposed will inform the Early Implementers – the aim being that by using others’ experience and knowledge to minimise the time spent establishing and managing partnerships, the Early Implementers can concentrate on the actual delivery of the 30 hours entitlement\. The DfE is therefore would like to award a four month contract to support the delivery of the 30 hours entitlement and use this project to: a\) learn how existing early years partnerships work and what makes them successful in order to share experience widely; b\) increase the amount of early years provision through schools by directly supporting those interested in establishing new partnerships; and c\) inform the early implementers that will be running from September 2016 to test different ways of delivering the 30 hours commitment\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f2ebfd33-0644-4796-8a40-97316f0dc330-116576)