# DHSC: ASC: Adult Social Care Support & Improvement Governance and Infrastructure

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DHSC](/buyers/dhsc/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Association of Directors of Adult Social Services](/contract-winners/association-of-directors-of-adult-social-services/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £733,884
- Tender value: £733,884
- Award date: 30 January 2023
- Published: 30 January 2023
- Contract start: 2 October 2022
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1518af85-941d-4c42-9a87-34643a69bf85-609879
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-44c3c2e9-d82f-43d9-b81a-faab56de515d

## Description

Enabling local authorities to lead their own improvement, by: o Facilitating sector-led improvement and peer to peer challenge and support o Supporting LAs to make best use of the national improvement programme; help to target resources to where they are most needed o Providing expert leadership support to lead members for adult social care and Directors of Adult Social Services \(DASSs\) - of which there is no equivalent organisation • Enabling DHSC to understand what's working well and what isn't in the sector and help do something about it, by: o Facilitating two-way communication between DHSC and LAs o Advising on live operational challenges to inform national policy and system design, reform implementation and review o Collaborating with DHSC to target help to where it is most needed\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1518af85-941d-4c42-9a87-34643a69bf85-609879)