The Devolved Child Decision-Making Pilot is a Home Office pilot in which decisions about whether children are victims of modern slavery are made by local safeguarding partners, rather than centrally by the Home Office competent authorities.

There are two current pilot sites in Wales – (1) Cardiff and (2) Newport with Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouth and Caerphilly.

The Home Office have asked us to share that they are launching the Devolved Decision-Making Pilot Grant Competition, aimed at expanding the pilot to additional sites. The competition is now live and open to applications. The closing date for submitting bids is 14 May 2025. The Home Office encourage all interested parties to review the details and consider applying.

Full details of the competition, including how to apply for funding, are available on the UK Government portal here: Piloting Devolved Decision Making for Child Victims of Modern Slavery

Please see further information which we have been asked to share below:

How to register 

The event will be run on the Home Office (HO) Jaggaer eSourcing Portal, following the default option of competition for UK Government grants. 

Bidders will first need to register on the portal via the following link: Click here

Bidders should be approved for usage within 24 hours of registering on the system. 

After clicking on the eSourcing Portal link, it should take you to the home page. On the left-hand side of this page, just below the login boxes, there is an option to register.  

To register as a supplier, you will need to provide information which will include:  

• the full legal name of your organisation  
• your DUNS number – a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun & Bradstreet  
• profile information describing your organisation and the size of your business  

If you have any difficulties registering on the system, then you should contact the Supplier eSourcing Helpdesk: [email protected] 

The HO Jaggaer eSourcing Portal is independent of other eSourcing Portals. Therefore, if you have registered on the Crown Commercial Service Jaggaer eSourcing Portal, you will also need to register on the HO Jaggaer eSourcing Portal. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. For potential bidders, please submit any competition-related questions via the Jaggaer portal. To ensure transparency and equal access to information, all responses will be published on the portal.