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Salford City Council – Record of
Decision
 
I Councillor J Cammell, Lead
Member for Children and Young People,
accept the recommendation that
the Family Keyworker Service
will not be recommissioned when
the current contract ends
on 31 March 2026, as detailed
in the table below:

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required

Answers

Title/Description of Contracted
Service/Supply/Project

Family Keyworker
Service

Procurement Reference numbers (DN
and CR number supplied by Procurement)

S1026

Name of Successful
Contractor

Waythrough

Supplier Registration
Number
(to be supplied by
Procurement

Charity number:
515755

Proclass Classification
No.
(to be completed by
procurement)

321000 + 321100

Type of
organisation
(to be supplied by
Procurement)

Registered Charity

Status of
Organisation
(to be supplied by
Procurement)

SME

Contract Value
(£)

£200,000   per
annum

Total contract value £
(including extensions)

£400,000  total project value

Contract
Duration

24 months

Contract Start
Date

01/04/2024

Contract End
Date

31/03/2026

Optional Extension Period
1

months

Optional Extension Period
2

months

Who will approve each Extension
Period?

Choose an item

Contact Officer (Name &
number)

 

 

 

 

Lead Service
Group

Children's Services

How the
contract was procured?
(to be supplied by
procurement)

ITT

Framework Details (where
applicable)
(procurement body, framework
reference & title, start/ end date

 

Funding
Source

External Funding Source (please
identify below)

 

Helping Families (Children and
Families Grant)

Ethical Contractor (EC):
Mayor’s Employment Charter

Yes
 

EC: Committed to sign The
Mayor’s Employment Charter

N/A
 
 

EC: Committed to the principles
outlined in the Mayor’s Employment
charter

N/A
 

EC: Accredited Living Wage
Employer

No
 

EC: Committed to becoming
Accredited Living wage Employer

Yes
?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Reasons are:
In response to the national
Supporting Families programme
concluding in March 2025, the
Family Keyworker Service is
not recommissioned following
the expiry of the current
contract on 31 March
2026.  With the Supporting
Families programme ending
nationally, the rationale
for maintaining a separate
commissioned service is
no longer
sustainable.
 
Options considered and rejected
were:
·     
Retender contract for a minimum of
12-months
·     
at current value.
 
Commissioners have reviewed options and
associated benefits and risks for the Family
Keyworker Service from April 2026.
 
Based on this, the recommendation is:
·     
that the Family Keyworker Service will
not
be recommissioned when the current contract ends
on 31 March 2026.
 
Assessment of Risk: Low
TUPE is unlikely to apply in this scenario, on
the basis that there is no transfer of activities
(‘activities’ in this sense including supported
families) 
to a new provider, rather, the activities continue as
they were, just without the commissioned element
 (i.e. the additional cohort of the
current Provider supported families).
 
 
Aligns with financial constraints.
The LA Early Help Service is able
to meet the delivery
expectations within the Family Keyworker Service
contract,
providing integrated, coordinated help for families
–
including those from protected groups – without
reduction
in access.
 
The source of funding
is:
Children and Families
Grant to the value of
£200,000 per annum.
 
Legal Advice obtained: Yes
– supplied by Lauren Armstrong,
Solicitor, Legal
& Democratic Services.
 
Financial Advice
obtained: Yes – supplied by Natalie
Mannion,
Finance
Manager.
 
Procurement Advice obtained:
Yes – supplied by Tom Pyne,
Procurement Category
Manager.
 
HR Advice obtained:
N/A.
 
Climate Change Implications
obtained: N/A.
 
The following documents have
been used to assist
the decision
process:
·     
Part 1 LMB Report Family Keyworker
Service
Contract 2 October 2025.
 
Contact Officer: Katie Kelleher, Head
of Service
Early Help and School
Readiness, Children’s Services          
Telephone number: 0161 793 2361.
 
This matter is not subject to
consideration
by another Lead
Member.
 
The appropriate Scrutiny
Committee to call-in the
decision is the
Children’s Services Scrutiny Panel.      
 
 

Signed:    Cllr J
Cammell 
  Dated:   2 October 2025.
      Lead Member
for Children’s and Young People’s Services.
 

FOR DEMOCRATIC SERVICES USE ONLY:
 
*          
This decision was published on 2nd October 2025
*          
This decision will come in force at 4.00 p.m.
On 9th October 2025 unless it is called-in
in accordance with the Decision Making Process
Rules.