Early Years and Childcare Workforce Survey 2026 (Wales)
Social Care WalesEstimated Value
Up to £20,000
Deadline
22 June 2026
Published
8 June 2026
Type
Not specified
Key points
- Deliver a robust, high-quality bilingual (Welsh and English) workforce survey aligned to Welsh Government priorities
- Build on the 2025 survey, potentially retaining standardised questions agreed with Welsh Government and Social Care Wales stakeholders to ensure national comparability.
- Build on the 2025 response rate
- Organise and facilitate a stakeholder engagement session to review and consider evaluation questions.
- Provide a critical review of the current planned survey, recognising the ambitions of consistency, patterns and trends
- Achieve high response rates across Wales, ensuring representation across regions, service types and Welsh-medium provision
- Ensure the survey is accessible, inclusive and supports equality duties under the Equality Act 2010 and Public Sector Equality Duty in Wales
- Generate robust workforce intelligence to inform Welsh Government policy development, workforce planning and sustainability
- Produce a concise report to support evidence-based decision-making across Welsh public services Requirements include:
- survey design and setup
- survey hosting, distribution and delivery
- analysis & reporting
- governance & ethics
- digital, bilingual and accessibility considerations
Regulations cited
- Equality Act 2010
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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.
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Likely incumbents
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- 1
Littlechild & Haley Ltd
2 contracts wonlatest 27 Apr 2026ends 31 Mar 2029£317,500
total awarded
- 2
COWSHED COMMUNICATION LIMITED
2 contracts wonlatest 26 Nov 2025£140,000
total awarded
- 3
Basis Ltd
1 contract wonlatest 17 Jul 2026ends 31 Mar 2027£119,200
total awarded
- 4
Opinion Research Services Ltd
1 contract wonlatest 17 Jul 2026ends 2 Jul 2027£37,282
total awarded
- 5
Better Group Limited
1 contract wonlatest 23 Apr 2026£228,000
total awarded
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Social Care WalesKey Dates
Published
8 June 2026
Submission deadline
22 June 2026
Notice type
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Source
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