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Research and development services and related consultancy services. In line with the ambitions of the LGA’s White Paper, we wish to commission a piece of research that quantifies the potential headline financial benefits of a place-based approach to public services and makes high-level recommendations regarding potential changes in legislation, departmental procedure and local delivery systems.

A regulated ("Open") tender to establish a multi-lot, multi-supplier framework agreement for the provision of research consultancy services.

In Surrey we would like to provide a training offer which enables professionals to maximise every opportunity to identify and respond to Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). This commissioned service will focus on providing training to professionals working with survivors and children who are subjected to and affected by domestic abuse, and those who are or have been perpetrating this behaviour. The training offer is crucial in ensuring that recent updated and changes implemented through the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 are both communicated and embedded into everyday practice, alongside the gaps and recommendations highlighted in the updated Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment for Surrey.

1.1       The project will consider the provider models that are operating in Scotland to establish a baseline for the cost of providing legal services and how legal aid providers operate under the current legal aid schemes and provide insights into the conditions (firms structures, business volumes and mix, cost base etc) that are most efficient for generating a return from legal aid work whilst meeting or exceeding quality requirements. The project will run concurrently to the Future of the Profession short life working group and data from that can inform this research and vice versa.    1.2       Importantly, the study will provide an evidence base on operating costs, overheads against legal aid earnings which will assist Scottish Ministers in coming to a view as to what reforms require to be made to the system of legal aid payments for future fairness and sustainability.

Alzheimer Scotland is working in partnership with Police Scotland to roll out a pilot service called ‘Return Discussions’, which aims to reduce the number of missing persons with dementia . A Return Discussion (RD) is an open conversation with the affected family, of the circumstances surrounding a reported missing incident. We are looking for an academic partner to carry out a social impact evaluation on: -the Return Discussion pilot service in the Edinburgh, Fife and Lanarkshire Police division areas, and -to quantify the costs to Police and Emergency Services when a person with dementia goes missing in Scotland. RDs have been routinely embedded into Police Scotland practice for some time. However, following some pioneering work by Missing People and Barnardo’s, a referral system for RD’s has been introduced by Police Scotland for missing children. Following on the success of this practice, in 2022 we piloted a RD referral system for people living with...

My Ends is the second iteration of our ambitious, flagship programme which will run from April 2024 until March 2026. It promotes highly local, place based approaches to reducing violence. The programme will be targeted in six to eight neighbourhoods across London which have experienced high and sustained levels of violence. It is non-prescriptive and empowers voluntary and community sector (VCS) providers to come together to build a Network tasked with developing locally-tailored approaches that meet the needs of the community. The VRU is currently in the process of identifying these areas and commissioning the VCS led Networks to commence delivery in April 2024. To support the programme, the VRU is seeking to commission external Provider(s) to provide a series of support & evaluation packages. These packages are divided into three lots which reflect the variety of skillsets and experience the VRU wishes to see: • Lot 1 - Community Needs Assessment, • Lot 2 - Process...

The Empowering Palestinian Institutions and Civil Society (EPICS) programme aims to improve the viability, legitimacy and inclusion of governance and service delivery, to protect and support civic space, and to empower women, in the OPTs. It will provide technical assistance to PA institutions across governance sectors, with a particular focus on financial viability and provision of essential services, in order to protect the fiscal viability and legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Through improving PA viability and legitimacy it will help reduce the drivers of instability and extremism. EPICS will be managed by the British Consulate General Jerusalem. FCDO intends to engage a supplier of Technical Assistance to deliver Output 1: Strengthened systems and capacities for centre of government processes, public financial management (PFM) and tax. The TA supplier may also be requested to support Output 2: Strengthened systems, processes and capacities for transparency,...

This workstream and the research carried out will explore and provide greater understanding of the way that prosecutors enact the Prosecutor's Code and supporting guidance when determining whether to charge a suspect, and in particular the extent to which this facilitates consistency in decision making. There is a need to explore the way in which prosecutors apply the Code and associated guidance, with a view to ensuring that that CPS has taken all reasonable steps to reduce disproportionality in decision making and is addressing its Public Sector Equality Duty.

Provide support, trainings and technical expertise to the Directorate General International Partnerships (DG INTPA), including staff in EU Delegations, Headquarters, and in partner countries regarding macro-fiscal issues. This would include knowledge sharing, policy analysis and the development of tailored policy recommendations.