Centre of Excellence Phase 2 - Sector Capability, Capacity and Skills
Centre of Excellence Phase 2 is a grant for organisations across the United Kingdom to build sector capability, capacity and skills, with eligibility set out in the application pack. This scheme has closed.
Run by Department for Education (DfE)
Checked against the official page (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk) on 7 Oct 2026.
This scheme has closed
It closed on 30 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.
A supplier or consortium is sought to deliver a Centre of Excellence for Children's Social Care Data and Digital, helping local authorities improve their data and digital maturity.
Status and deadline
Status
Confirmed on the official page
Deadline
As stated: Opening date: 2 October 2026, 12:01am (Midnight) - Closing date: 30 October 2026, 11:59pm (Midnight)
Confirmed on the official page
How much
Whole fund: £5,871,778, shared between applicants
This may be the whole fund rather than what one business can get
Who can apply
Confirmed on the official page
Business size
How to apply
Not confirmed on the official page
Where it is open: UK-wide
Not confirmed on the official page
Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.
Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.
- Confirmed on the official page
- Uncertain, or sources disagree
- Important, but we could not find it
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Source and last checked
Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk) on 7 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 31 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Department for Education (DfE) before you apply.
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- find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/centre-of-excellence-phase-2---sector-capability-capthe official page, checked automatically, read 7 Oct 2026