Invest to Save Pathfinders and Personalised Employment Programme Pilots
Invest to Save (I2S) pathfinders and the Personalised Employment Programme (PEP) pilots are part of the new Welfare to Work initiatives announced in the White Paper ‘Raising expectations and increasing support – reforming welfare for the future’ which was published in December 2008.
Invest to Save will test whether, using an innovative funding model, long term incapacity benefits/ ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) claimants can be helped into long term, sustained job outcomes in return for increased rewards for providers.
The Personalised Employment Programme will combine provision for JSA claimants, ESA claimants and parents with younger children in a single, integrated, flexible employment programme. Through this multi-client group contracting approach the pilot will test a radical new way of tailoring support to individual needs and helping those with multiple barriers to employment back to work. The pilots will also trial the conditionality framework recommended in the Gregg Review and we are exploring the feasibility of testing an innovative ‘accelerator’ funding model in the Personalised Employment Programme pilot areas.
Latest Information
Question and Answer Logs from the recent supplier briefing events held on 28 July in Sheffield and the 30 July in London:
Presentations from the recent supplier briefing events held on the 28 July in Sheffield and the 30 July in London:
- Introduction – Toni Percival (41KB)
- Invest to Save – Helen Musgrove (51KB)
- Devolution/Localisation Invest to Save/PEP – Ian Short/Sharon Cheetham (45KB)
- Consortium Development – James Jennings (409KB)
- Personalised Employment Programme (PEP) Pilots – Darren Bird/John Mazzeo (48KB)
- The PEP Accelerator Model – Sheer Khan (57KB)
- Procurement Approach – Toni Percival (109KB)
Complete the I2S/PEP contact sheet (35KB) if required and send in hard copy format to the address given on the form. Your details will then be added to a database of organisations that are seeking sub-contracting opportunities for Invest to Save and/or Personalised Employment Programme.
