# SOCIAL WORK FAST TRACK PROGRAMMES - TRACKING RETENTION AND PROGRESSION

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## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department For Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Cardiff University
- Award value: £232,007
- Tender value: £232,007
- Award date: 29 March 2017
- Published: 10 January 2018
- Contract start: 1 May 2017
- Contract end: 30 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 8f26d44e-9e0d-4210-b4fb-bcbf022c186e-190817
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3e96ed60-058c-4a4b-919a-6cba66fd99ab

## Description

The overall aim of this research study is to investigate the longer-term outcomes for Frontline cohorts 1 to 5 and Step Up cohorts 4 and 5, such as employment destinations, rate of career progression and retention within child and family social work; through tracking, surveying and interviewing\. The Contractor has agreed to use all reasonable endeavours \(via tracking, surveying and interviewing\) to achieve the following objectives to identify: 1\. the employment destinations and trajectories of fast-track graduates after they complete the Step Up or Frontline programmes; 2\. the retention rates within social work over time for each of the fast-track cohorts; 3\. whether fast-track graduates entering social work progress to supervision or leadership roles and if so, how quickly; 4\. the longer team career plans and aspirations of fast-track graduates; 5\. the destinations of fast-track graduates exiting the programmes before completion, those completing the programmes but choosing to not enter social work, and those entering social work but subsequently leaving, and why; 6\. the push/ pull factors affecting retention in child and family social work amongst fast-track graduates; 7\. whether the typology of career trajectories developed in previous Step Up studies are transferable to Frontline graduates, and what this typology says about supervising and managing the workforce; 8\. the coping strategies employed by fast-track graduates and what impact these strategies could have on future workforce management\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8f26d44e-9e0d-4210-b4fb-bcbf022c186e-190817)