CoSA Transition Consultancy

Transitional consultancy arrangements for work associated with moving to replacement CoSA applications and the maintenance of the current WYCA’s CoSA applications during the migration period.

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Alternative delivery models - Business continuity and resilience - Business transformation - Change management - Commercialisation - Corporate social responsibility - Disaster recovery systems and testing - Crisis and emergency preparedness, contingency planning, and response - Funding research, applications and bids - Improvement programmes - Innovation - Legislation compliance - Net zero (design, procurement, and finance) - Marketing services and management - Organisational design and policy - Process mapping - Programme and project management - Project management - Quality management - Risk management and mitigation - Service improvement - Staff recruitment and retention - Strategy development - Supply chain management - Whole-Life carbon, cost and risk, management & planning - Workforce planning and transformation

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Category management - Contract management - Corporate Social Responsibility - E-sourcing - Efficiencies and savings - European and global sourcing - Implementation support - Post procurement support - Process mapping and optimisation - Procurement strategy development and implementation - Procurement support - Social Value - Supplier integration - Supplier relationship management - Supply chain resilience

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Apprenticeships and vocational learning - Academy conversions (including applications, funding, preopening tasks, etc) - Adult education - Behavioural improvement programmes - Curriculum development - Early years development - Education strategies and transformation - Employability skills and professional development - Governance Policy & Regulations - Healthy school programmes - Learning - Legislation Compliance - OFSTED support services - Quality and Internal Verification - Recruitment and retention - Research and data analysis - Safeguarding - School admission processes and systems - School policies and initiatives - School improvement plans - School remodelling programmes - SEND Learning - Student journey - Student recruitment and support services

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Audit assessments - Audit consultancy - Audit services - Audit strategies and methodologies - Benchmarking and quality assurance - External audits - Financial audits - Governance, risk and internal control - Internal audits

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Benchmarking and quality assurance - Compliance reviewing - Corporate governance - Fraud investigation - Internal control reviewing - Internal audits - Operational reviewing - Risk management - Specified purpose audits

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Benchmarking and quality assurance - Compliance reviewing - Corporate governance - External assurance services - External audits - Financial audit - Fraud investigation - Risk management - Specified purpose audits - Statutory audits

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Actuary, investments and pensions - Banking - Business Cases - External funding - Financial analysis and reporting - Financial modelling and model reviews - Financial options - Financial reviews, evaluations and feasibility studies - Financial policies and strategies - Financial procedures and processes - Funding applications and grants - PFI advisory services - Taskforce Carbon Finance Disclosure TCFD)

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Efficiency reviews - Government returns - Heath check programmes - Model adoptions - Payment arrears

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Compliance and advisory - Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) - Corporation tax - Customs Duties - Efficiency schemes - Employment tax - Land tax - Living and national minimum wage - Nation Insurance Contributions (NICs) - PAYE and IR35 - Policy development - Stamp duty - Tax accounting services - Tax planning - Tax technologies - Value Added Tax (VAT)

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Accounting treatment - Credit ratings - Codes of practice - Debt management - External loan portfolios - Investment reviews and strategies - Legislation - Market conditions - Prudential indicators - Treasury management risks

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Commercial feasibility and technical reviews - Equipment and facilities - Food and drink menus - Food hygiene - Healthy eating programmes - Legislation compliance - Nutrition - Options appraisals - Soft and Hard Facilities Management - Accident statistics - Assurance reports and model documentation - COSHH and HACCP - H&S legislation - H&S policies and management - Inspections and audits - Notices and corrective action plans - Risk assessments and controls - Safe working procedures

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Behavioural science - Biostatistics - Care toolkits - Clinical evaluations - Collaborative working arrangements - Commissioning models - Departmental and service reviews - Demand management - Developing and implementing of public health schemes - Environmental health - Epidemiology - Health education - Health services administration - Healthy and happy workplace schemes - Mental health reviews - New service business cases - Personalisation - Pandemic contingency - Public health programmes and promotions - Service efficiency plans and improvements - Service Transformation - Service user pathways - Technology Developments

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Care toolkits - Clinical evaluations - Collaborative working arrangements - Commissioning models - Departmental and service reviews - Demand management - Health and social care integration - Outreach programmes - New service business cases - Personalisation - Safeguarding - Service efficiency plans and improvements - Service user pathways - Technology developments - Vulnerable adults and children's protection

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Active travel - Business cases - Cycle route planning or improvements - Demand management - Funding and funding applications - Highway Design - Highway Development Management - Impact assessments - Intelligent transport systems - Junction planning or improvements - Management strategies of highway structures and assets - Pedestrian route planning or improvements - Public transport route planning or improvements - Road/Route safety - Spatial planning and health initiatives - Strategic transport planning - Street and traffic management - Transport and transport links - Travel initiatives - Travel plans and planning - Transport planning and modelling - Vehicle parking, charges and EV charging

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Artificial Intelligence technology - Cloud Solutions - Server solutions - Software assurance - Systems development and analysis - Telecommunications - Wireless solutions - Cyber security solutions

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Artificial Intelligence - Capability assessment, review and development - Cost analysis and projection - Data Protection and cyber security - Digital Strategy Development - Digital services and transformation - Disaster recovery - Forecast, planning and strategy - IT project and programme management - Intelligent Automation - Policy development, maintenance and review - Process mapping and optimisation - Risk assessment and risk management (specific to IT)

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Art and cultural services studies - Child protection - Commercial and efficiency reviews - Customer insight information - Funding and funding applications - Health and Safety - Historic site, building, and monument studies - Increasing public use of services - Leisure facilities and activities - Library service studies - Management improvement programmes - Museum service studies - Outsourcing of services - Physical activity and Wellbeing - Service strategy design - Sport service studies - Technical reviews - Trusts and joint ventures

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Acquisitions - Evaluations and reviews - Liability - Maintenance - Management and Delivery - Management of historic sites, buildings, and monuments - Mapping - Property surveys - Rationalisation - Remodelling - Sale and disposal

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Assessments and appraisals - Alternative energy - Archaeology studies - Biodiversity - Carbon foot-printing and reduction - Carbon reduction and climate change adaptation - Climate change adaptation and mitigation - Eco-towns - Environmental audits - Environmental initiatives - Environmental legislation - Energy efficiency and targets - Flood defences, alleviation and drainage - Green technologies - Heat networks - Landscape management - Mapping - Modelling - Pollution - Resource efficiency behaviour change programmes - Smart cities - Sustainability - Water management - Waste auditing

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Delivery Models - Fire risk - Hard FM consultancy - Outsourcing of FM services - Premises, caretaking and cleaning - Property security - Reorganisation of FM services - Soft FM consultancy

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Accident Statistics - Assurance reports and model documentation - Building surveys and risk assessments - COSHH and REACH - H&S legislation - H&S policies and management - Inspections and audits - Notices and corrective action plans - Risk assessments and controls - Safe working procedures

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Asset Management - Benchmarking - Development project management - Governance - Homelessness - Housing needs and assessments - Investment programmes - Living standards, stock condition surveys and risk assessments - Management and support - Quality assurance - Process mapping - Regeneration project management - Revenue optimisation and funding - Risk and internal control - Service improvement and performance - Supported housing - Tenant participation schemes - Tenant scrutiny - Transfers and de-commissioning

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Agricultural and retail planning - Employment land reviews - Local economic assessments - Planning applications and appeals - Planning legislation - Planning taxes and levies - Spatial planning - Specialist planning

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Business case development - Employment land reviews - Government policy and awareness - Historic site, building and monument assessments. - Income generation schemes - Local business development - Local economic assessments - Regeneration and economic development - Supply chain development - Sustainable community strategies - Sustainable economic growth plans

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Auditing services - Alternative waste treatment - Business cases - Campaigns - Carbon assessments - Commercial waste - Domestic waste - Illegal waste tipping - Legislation - Management investment programmes - New waste sites - Options appraisals - Permits and accreditations - Policies and strategies - Service reviews - Street cleansing support service

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Academic research - Communication - Community research and strategies - Customer insight information - Demand management - Feedback facilitation - Public dialogue, engagement and consultation - Soft market testing - Staff Surveys - Stakeholder engagement

Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Branding - Creative communications - Communication and marketing materials - Crisis management - Digital communications - Events management - Market research - Marketing campaigns, plans and strategies - Media relations - Training for reporting to Government, Parliament and Public Enquiries - Public relations - Social media - Targeting strategies - Website design

Consultancy advice across a wide range of disciplines in relation to high value and/or complex strategic programmes and projects.