Invest to Save Pathfinders and Personalised Employment Programme Pilots
3 July 2009
This note tells you about some forthcoming opportunities to bid for a number of Invest to Save and Personalised Employment Programme contracts. These will be advertised later this year.
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 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.
If you are interested in these contracts I would encourage you to check our site regularly to ensure you do not miss these tendering opportunities. In the meantime, we will be arranging a series of supplier events to share information about the emerging design of the new programmes and the procurement process. If you would like to attend one of these events please complete the registration pro-forma.
Also attached for your information are:
- The Provision Forum Sub Group Terms of Reference (26KB)
- The Provision Forum Sub Group Minutes, 4 July 2009 (51KB)
- PEP/I2S presentation (41KB)
- PEP pilots - slides (46KB)
- PEP accelerator model - slides (50KB)
- I2S overview - slides (54KB)
