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28 May 26

East Sussex County Council’s Approved List for Supported Living Services for Working Age Adults

East Sussex County Council’s Adult Social Care Department has reopened applications to its Approved List for Supported Living Services for Working Age Adults. The Council is inviting providers to join the existing Approved List for the remainder of its current lifetime, with applications closing on 11 June 2026 at 06:00.…

25 May 26

The National Procurement Policy Statement at 15 Months: What UK Suppliers Are Learning About How It Actually Scores

The National Procurement Policy Statement landed on 24 February 2025, alongside the Procurement Act 2023 coming fully into force. At the time, the commentary from the trade press was muted. The Fieldfisher analysis called it “somewhat underwhelming, covering largely predictable and well-trodden themes such as value for money, encouragement for…

22 May 26

Ofsted’s 2026 Updates to ILACS and SCCIF: A Practical Guide for Children’s Social Care Providers

The week Ofsted published the updated framework for inspecting local authority children’s services, attention was elsewhere. The schools sector was absorbing the report card rollout. The Welsh not-for-profit reforms had landed three weeks earlier. The Casey Commission was building toward Phase 1. The Ofsted announcement on 20 March 2026, confirming…

21 May 26

Pension Age Disability Payment: What Scottish Care Providers Need to Know in 2026

Pension Age Disability Payment has been the largest cash transfer of Scotland’s devolved welfare programme so far. Between its launch on 21 October 2024 and the end of January 2026, Social Security Scotland issued around £358.1 million in payments to 175,750 individuals through more than a million separate payments. The…

20 May 26

Top Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting Bid Support Services

The decision to bring in external bid support is one of the most consequential procurement decisions a UK supplier makes in any given year. A strong consultancy lifts win rates measurably, brings sector-specific evaluator knowledge the in-house team cannot replicate, and protects strong content through compliance gates that derail otherwise…

19 May 26

Birmingham City Council’s P2269 Open Framework for Temporary Accommodation: A Three-Year Route to Market for Private Sector Landlords and Registered Providers

Birmingham City Council has opened P2269, an Open Framework for the provision of temporary accommodation through the private rented sector and private registered providers of social housing. The framework runs for three years from award, with an option to extend by a further two years in yearly increments. Unlike a…

15 May 26

The NHS Modernisation Bill: What the 2026 King’s Speech Means for UK Health and Social Care Providers

On Wednesday 13 May 2026, the King’s Speech set out the legislative programme for the new parliamentary session. Among the headline announcements was the NHS Modernisation Bill, the formal legislative vehicle for the most extensive reorganisation of the NHS in more than a decade. The following day, the Department of…

13 May 26

The CIW in 2026: New Powers, Published Ratings, and What’s Changing for Welsh Care Providers

If you work in Welsh health and social care, the regulator you are answering to from 1 April 2026 is operating under different rules from the one you were answering to a year ago. The Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 received Royal Assent in March 2025 and substantially…

13 May 26

Surrey County Council’s £48m Client Transport Services Framework

Surrey County Council has opened a £48 million Client Transport Services framework running from 2026 to 2034, covering home-to-school transport for mainstream and SEN pupils, adult day centre transport, looked-after children journeys, and respite care travel. The eight-year term and contract value make this one of the most substantial client…

11 May 26

How to Write Tender Responses That Score in the Upper Bands: A 2026 Craft Guide for UK Suppliers

A tender response is one of the few documents in business writing where the reader is required to score what you wrote. Not skim it, not act on it, not pass it on, but assign it a number on a published scale, with a moderation panel ready to check their…

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