Let's Grow Together! Infant & Childhood Partnerships: Invitation to Tender
Invitation to Tender for
Let’s Grow Together! Infant & Childhood Partnerships CLG
Develop Central Data Management System (Database)
Background to Let’s Grow Together
Let’s Grow Together is an area-based organization in the Northwest area of Cork City. We work in partnership with everyone important in children’s lives. We aim to share knowledge, skills, and resources within this area, through a relational, strength-based, holistic approach. We work as an interdisciplinary team, in partnership with the community, local services, and agencies. The core work of Let’s Grow Together is part of the Area Based Childhood Programme within the TUSLA Child & Family Agency.
Our Main Objectives:
- To govern, support and develop area-based prevention and early intervention programming and approaches that support early childhood development, relationships, and environments
- To set the foundations for infant and child development, learning, wellbeing, quality of life and outcomes
- And by doing so mitigate the intergenerational impact of child poverty and get all children’s lives off to the best possible start
Our Subsidiary Objectives:
- Respectfully enhancing skills and early childhood development knowledge, of all parents, practitioners, and services
- Strengthening and supporting all relationships and environments that are important to every child’s early development
- Embedding systems and community change to support early childhood development
- Undertaking participatory learning and evaluation, documenting, and policy development
Background to Current Situation
Let’s Grow Together operates with 18 staff out of two locations in the Northwest area of Cork City, with many of our activities occurring off-site throughout the community. Our core work includes group programmes for families, individual Home Visiting for families, training programmes for practitioners and professionals, mentoring for professionals in Early Years settings, and programming in primary schools. We also provide clinical administrative management for the Kidscope Paediatric Clinic.
- In a typical year 160-200 families register with us, then choose which programmes to join
- In a typical year we offer 4-7 training programmes to 30-70 practitioners and professionals
- We work with 10 Early Years settings and 10 primary schools
- In a typical year there are 60-70 new referrals and 180-210 appointments in the Kidscope Clinic
We collect and store a variety of data from programme participants. We analyse this data in various ways and for various purposes. We also provide regular reports on our activities to our funders and partners. Our current data management system is not suitable for the volume of data we collect, store, and analyse. Therefore, we are seeking the development of a high-functioning, customised Electronic Database.