Partner for joint funding bids for employment support for families

Tender description

This is an invitation to express an interest in becoming Central London Forward’s (CLF) preferred partner for the joint development of funding bids relating to employment support for families, such as the forthcoming opportunity in this area via the European Social Fund (ESF). Funding is estimated to be for approximately £3-4million. Please note that this is not a contract opportunity at this stage and therefore not a procurement process. CLF is proactively seeking to identify a preferred bidding partner in order to maximise our collective ability to create a locally integrated, co-designed approach to the delivery of relevant future employment support contracts within the central London area. Our initial thinking draws on the participating local authorities’ experience of delivering the Government’s Troubled Families programme and of seeking to integrate this with separate employment support provision for the cohort, including the ESF Families activity commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) under the ESF 2007-13 programme. Through this experience the value of early, thorough engagement and integration between different services was particularly apparent.