Social Care Wales

The Welsh Government wants to hire a research company to run a large survey of early years and childcare workers across Wales in 2026. You'll design the survey, send it out to thousands of workers, collect the answers, analyse the results, and write a report to help the government understand the workforce and make better policy decisions.

```json { "overview": "Social Care Wales wants to improve leadership and culture in Welsh residential care homes. This contract has two separate jobs: Lot 1 is to design and test a new leadership support programme and a tool that care homes can use to measure and improve their workplace culture; Lot 2 is to independently evaluate whether Lot 1's work actually worked and what impact it had. You can bid for one or both, but you can't win both (to avoid conflicts of interest).", "requirements": [ "Must have experience in service design, co-production, and testing programmes in social care settings", "Demonstrated expertise in working with adult social care providers and understanding residential care environments", "Experience conducting ethical research including informed consent, safeguarding, and data protection compliance", "For Lot 1: Ability to design and run co-design workshops with care leaders and staff", "For Lot 1: Capacity to recruit and work with 6 pilot care provider sites across Wales over the contract period", "For Lot 1: Skills in developing practical resources, guidance materials, and service design reports", "For Lot 2: Experience in independent programme evaluation and mixed-methods evaluation design", "For Lot 2: Knowledge of theory of change and contribution analysis methodologies", "For Lot 2: Ability to measure outcomes across multiple sites and synthesise complex data", "For Lot 2: Experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and external evaluators", "Ability to work collaboratively with Social Care Wales, Care Inspectorate Wales, and other commissioned suppliers", "Understanding of strengths-based and compassionate leadership models in care settings", "Access to or ability to conduct site visits across Wales (virtual consultations as alternative)" ], "key_tasks": [ "Lot 1, Phase 2: Recruit and partner with 6 adult social care provider pilot sites across Wales using agreed criteria", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Design and run co-design workshops with care leaders to create a new leadership support service", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Develop a theory of change document to guide the design and testing work", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Create site-specific action plans for each of the 6 care settings to test the new support service", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Conduct site visits or virtual consultations with Responsible Individuals and Registered Managers to observe how they support positive cultures", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Measure the 'positive culture' position at each test site at the start, mid-point, and end of testing", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Gather feedback from testing and iterate solutions with care providers", "Lot 1, Phase 2: Produce a service design report detailing what was designed, how it was tested, what was learned, and recommendations for scaled implementation", "Lot 1, Phase 3: Engage stakeholders in co-design workshops to define success criteria and design principles for a positive culture tool", "Lot 1, Phase 3: Develop a practical tool that measures positive culture indicators aligned with strengths-based and compassionate leadership", "Lot 1, Phase 3: Test the tool with the same 6 providers across Wales", "Lot 1, Phase 3: Validate usability and clarity of the tool through iterative feedback from pilot sites", "Lot 1, Phase 3: Produce a service design report on tool design, testing process, pilot site results, and recommendations for implementation", "Lot 1: Ensure all research practices are ethical, including informed consent, safeguarding, and data protection", "Lot 1: Collaborate with the Lot 2 evaluator to gather evidence that will feed into their evaluation report", "Lot 2: Develop an independent evaluation and impact framework for assessing Phases 2 and 3", "Lot 2: Conduct mixed-methods evaluation of both the leadership support service and the positive culture tool", "Lot 2: Assess whether the support offer and tool were delivered as intended and document any adaptations", "Lot 2: Explore whether the programme achieved its intended aims across all 6 test sites", "Lot 2: Identify factors that influenced programme impact and why impacts varied between test sites", "Lot 2: Measure what difference the programme made to staff, management, organisations, and people accessing care", "Lot 2: Explore how wider systemic factors influenced programme outcomes", "Lot 2: Develop a theory of change using contribution analysis, building on Rayne Foundation expected outcomes", "Lot 2: Map intended outcomes and explore contribution towards those outcomes", "Lot 2: Monitor outputs and explore changes in workforce and provider behaviour", "Lot 2: Identify systemic barriers impacting the programme", "Lot 2: Assess positive cultures at test sites at start, mid-point, and end of testing", "Lot 2: Incorporate lived experience and workforce voices into the evaluation wherever possible", "Lot

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