New Plan for Immigration – Enhanced Integration Package

Tender description

The Home Office plans to contract for the provision of design and delivery of an Enhanced Integration Package for refugees in England arriving under safe and legal routes. This package will focus on supporting refugees to become self-sufficient and integrate well into society. The content of this PIN, including the nature of works and services including start date of contract, may be the subject to change. The contract is expected to commence in late 2022 / early 2023 and is expected to be in place until March 2025. Lot 1: The New Plan for Immigration includes proposals to deliver an Enhanced Integration Package for refugees in England arriving under safe and legal routes. This package will focus on supporting refugees to become self-sufficient and integrate into society. The policy statement says: We will continue to encourage asylum via safe and legal routes, strengthening our support by offering an enhanced integration package to those arriving in this manner and immediate indefinite leave to remain in the UK for resettled refugees. We will maintain clear, well-defined routes for refugees in need of protection, ensuring refugees have the freedom to succeed, ability to integrate and contribute fully to society when they arrive in the UK. Refugees in the UK should have access to the tools they need to become fully independent, provide for themselves and their families and contribute to the economic and cultural life of the UK. We want to ensure there is effective support so that refugees can integrate and become self-sufficient once they make the UK their home. We will therefore develop tailored and flexible employment support arrangements to refugees arriving to help accelerate their progress as they adjust to life in the UK. We have already committed £14 million for a cross-government Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund to offer greater support to refugees with a focus on employment and getting people into work. Building on this programme and other schemes available, we will develop a package of tailored support such as language training, skills development and work placements to help refugees build their lives in the UK. Because proficiency in the English language is so important for refugees to successfully integrate into local communities and enter the workplace, we will improve the offer of English language teaching. Service Outcomes The Home Office seeks commercial partners that can support it to deliver service outcomes such as: Establish a regional refugee integration service to provide a holistic caseworking service, delivering against defined service delivery standards, to provide integration support for refugees arriving in the area under a safe and legal route Provide tailored employment support for refugees to develop skills and access the labour market. This may include employment specific English language training Provide holistic caseworking support to refugees who cannot already access a caseworker, to develop the refugee’s personal integration plan and support them to integrate into local communities and access mainstream services Provide English language training for refugees who cannot already access an ESOL tariff, to support language development Report integration outcomes to the Home Office to support monitoring and evaluation of refugee integration. Service Delivery and Implementation The Home Office wants to ensure refugees arriving under safe and legal routes can access appropriate integration support to ensure they can become self-sufficient and integrate into society. The offer of integration support could be delivered regionally through the provision of: Caseworking including employment support Access to English language training Online guidance and support Services required may include (but are not limited to): Establishing an online presence to provide guidance and signposting to services Hiring a caseworking team to provide support to refugees through a mixture of face-to-face and remote support Hiring an employment support team to provide tailored employment support for refugees Delivering (or sub-contracting) English language training Delivering (or sub-contracting) training and skills building to support access to employment