Education and training services

Tender description

Please note: This Tender opportunity was advertised on this site on 25.10.2016 as Worcestershire Prep4Work Programme — Apprenticeships / Traineeships. Only the name of the programme has changed to Worcestershire SkillsForWork Programme — Apprenticeships / Traineeships. All the documentation, the timetable and the questions remain exactly the same. Worcestershire SkillsForWork is funded by European Social Fund (ESF), managed by Skills Funding Agency, to address poverty and social exclusion faced by the most disadvantaged people in Worcestershire to be delivered from December 2016 to March 2018. Worcestershire County Council (WCC) have successfully secured funding to deliver Worcestershire SkillsForWork Programme — Apprenticeships and Traineeships to provide bespoke training and support to residents in Worcestershire, who are unemployed and those economically inactive and seeking a return to the labour market facing skills related barriers and progressing to Apprenticeships or Traineeships. The County Council is seeking to appoint Service Providers to deliver bespoke support and training that engages adults who are disadvantaged and economically inactive with activity that progresses them towards apprenticeship or traineeships. The Council is seeking to appoint Service Providers with funding available from the European Social Fund. Worcestershire County Council will have sub-contracting arrangements in place with successful Tenderers/Service Providers to deliver the programme across the County to provide a comprehensive range of support and training required under the Service Specification that provides solutions to remove employment barriers and education barriers and progress them to Apprenticeship or Traineeships.