Manchester City Council is moving from being a provider of childcare to a commissioner across the whole city and wants to award contracts to high quality daycare providers f rom late spring to early 2014, with providers starting to take over provision from the summer.
The opportunity has arisen out of the council's wider redesign of services to move away from running daycare both in children's centres and standalone early years settings and to focus support on families most in need.
The council says it wants to award contracts to high quality private, voluntary and independent providers, whether large or small providers, in existing childcare settings across the city. Providers can bid to run single or multiple sites and can be new or existing providers.
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