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Bidding opportunities - DWP Welfare to Work services
Is your organisation innovative, able to deliver or oversee the delivery of quality provision to high standards and offer value for money?
Can you unlock the talents of individuals, help them enter employment and support them in the development of new skills? If so, we’d like to talk to you.
The recent White Paper on Welfare Reform “Raising expectations and increasing support: reforming welfare for the future”, sets out a range of measures to improve the lives of thousands of people by helping them to take advantage of employment opportunities. We want to hear from organisations who can help us deliver these measures and support unemployed people into sustainable jobs.
By 2011 we will be looking to award contracts with a combined value of several billion pounds. This opens up the opportunity to work with us in a variety of ways, including acting as prime contractors and sub-contractors. We are keen for organisations of varying sizes from all sectors and markets to get involved, and we want to work with the best! So whether you are involved in delivering contracts for DWP at the moment, or have the capacity and willingness to do so in the future we’d really like to hear from you.
Opportunities for the future include:
- Flexible New Deal phase 2: Following on from Flexible New Deal phase 1, this will involve support for people on Jobseekers Allowance and will replace the current, separate New Deals. It is expected that providers will develop innovative and flexible initiatives, which meet the requirements of the particular local area and customer profile.
- Improving Disability Employment Advisory Services (IDEAS) programme: This involves the development of tailored packages for customers whose disability raises serious and complex issues in finding and/or keeping a paid job.
- Progress to work / Link up: The Progress2Work and Progress2Work Link Up programmes will be merged. The new programme will offer personalised additional support for customers such as recovering drug and alcohol misusers, homeless people or ex-offenders to help them to move into work. We will also be running some pilots to test a new mandatory regime for problem drug users. The pilots will support individuals whilst they take action to stabilise their drug condition and help them to address any other barriers to work that they face.
- “Work for Your Benefits” pilots: These pilots will involve tailored, full-time activity (work experience and employment support) for some customers who finish Flexible New Deal without finding sustained work. The programme is intended to help people find work by providing them with the opportunity to develop work habits and routines.
- Pilots in five regions to test possible new financing agreements (AME/DEL): These pilots will provide support to help long-term incapacity claimants back to work, financed by an innovative new arrangement between DWP and HM Treasury.
- A Personalised Employment Programme in two pilot areas: We will work with providers to deliver a single, integrated, flexible employment programme for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants. Providers will have the flexibility to deliver a personalised service depending on individual customer needs rather than the benefit someone receives.
- Jobcentre Plus Support Contract: This is a National programme delivering a range of vocational and personal development services to support Jobcentre Plus customers and help move them towards the job market.
- ESF Contracts: New opportunities to deliver the European Social Fund within the 2007–2013 ESF Programme.
Pre Qualification Questionnaires will be available from Spring 2009
To find out more about the full range of activity and how you can be a part of these exciting opportunities, join us at:
Celtic Football Club, Glasgow
Wednesday 25th February 2009,
10.30 – 15.00
The Novotel, St Pancras, London
Thursday 26th February 2009,
10.30 – 15.00
The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Friday 27th February 2009
10.30 – 15.00
The Principle Hayley Palace Hotel, Manchester
Monday 2nd March 2009
10.30 – 15.00
To book a place at one of these events email: opportunities.4providers@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
with your name, organisation, the event you would like to attend and
any special requirements you may have or ring us on 0207 449 5229.
For further information on supplying employment related services to DWP, visit our website
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/supplyingdwp
Also see our recent Welfare Reform White Paper at
www.dwp.gov.uk/raisingexpectations
