Attendance Monitoring for Virtual School

Concepts

• newport
• information technology
• improve school attendance
• iow virtual school
• virtual school
• school attendance
• iow virtual
• attendance monitoring
• school
• monitoring

Location

Newport

Description

In accordance with Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children (Feb 2018) and, more recently, Working Together to Improve School Attendance (May 2022), Hampshire and IOW Virtual schools require a secure, cloud hosted, Information Management System that will enable the services to regularly monitor the attendance and attainment of Looked after Children, in and out of county, in order to improve educational outcomes. The system will enable the LA’s to meet the responsibilities detailed in the guidance to improve the attendance and attainment of this vulnerable cohort through targeted and data informed strategies and approaches.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
• 48000000 - Software package and information systems

Indicators

• Contract modified due to unforeseen circumstances.

Legal Justification

The addition of children with a social worker ever 6 is in response to department for education guidance updated in July 2025 and due to become statutorythrough the wellbeing bill in 2026. We are proactively looking to develop process and practice to ensure we meet the needs of children, and out statutoryduty. The modification is just to add an additional cohort of children to an existing contract.