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Parenting support contracts

UK public sector · 72 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
72
Last 12 months
Median contract
£150k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£21.4m
70 of 70 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
52
Suppliers
49

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most parenting support contracts took 31% of them (22 of 72).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter rose 19% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £150k, is 47% below the median across social care contracts (£281k).
  • London had the most contracts: 12, or 17% of the total.

Who buys parenting support

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council4 contracts
  2. 2Cornwall Council3 contracts
  3. 3Leicester City Council3 contracts
  4. 4Hartlepool Borough Council3 contracts
  5. 5Bridgend County Borough Council2 contracts
  6. 6London Borough of Enfield2 contracts
  7. 7North Northamptonshire Council2 contracts
  8. 8Thurrock Council2 contracts
  9. 9Peterborough City Council2 contracts
  10. 10Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)2 contracts

Top parenting support contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1The Breastfeeding Network5 contracts
  2. 2National Childbirth Trust5 contracts
  3. 3Character Counts Ltd5 contracts
  4. 4Barnardo's4 contracts
  5. 5Action for Children3 contracts
  6. 6Family Action3 contracts
  7. 7North East Young Dads and Lads3 contracts
  8. 8Triple P UK Limited3 contracts
  9. 9HomeStart-HOST2 contracts
  10. 10LifeLine Community Projects2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

10Q4 2025*21Q1 202613Q2 202625Q3 20263Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 67 · Wales 4 · Scotland 1

London12North East10North West10Yorkshire and The Humber9East Midlands7South West5East of England4Wales4West Midlands3South East2Scotland1UK-wide or not stated5

What is included

Delivery of group and one-to-one parenting programmes, reducing parental conflict support and parent support services to parents, including peer, volunteer and family-worker home visiting for parents of babies and young children and perinatal mental health peer support.

  • Parenting programmes such as PEEP
  • Reducing parental conflict programmes
  • Remote one-to-one parent chat support
  • Perinatal mental health peer support
  • Peer-led support for parents of infants
  • Early years parent support from birth to school age
  • Home visiting family support

What is not included

  • Training practitioners to deliver programmes (another industry: education-training)
  • Health visiting and clinical perinatal mental health (another industry: healthcare)
  • Family hub operation (soc.family.family-hubs-and-childrens-centres)
  • Whole-family key work and edge of care (soc.family.early-help-family-support)
  • Support for parent carers of disabled children (soc.carer.carers-support-services)

Often bought by the same buyers