URGENT! ESF opportunity
If you deliver to rural organisations, ex/offenders or provide skills for jobs then please act now!
If you feel the below news item is of relevance to other organisations you work with then please pass on this page link
The current LSC ESF round is out now and there are opportunities for delivery if you work with ex/offenders; in rural areas or; delivering general skills for jobs (e.g. CV writing). In all, there are 6 separate contracts:
* Skills for Olympics and Paralympics (ESF) –Sports-Related Skills
* Skills for Jobs
* 14-16 NEET Prevention (Suffolk)
* 14-16 NEET Prevention (Essex)
* Skills for Olympics and Paralympics (ESF) –Supporting new approaches to
developing construction skills
* East of England - Assessor Training & Support
Looking at these, 14-16 NEET prevention are opportunities for Essex and Suffolk only. Skills for Olympics and Paralympics are sports or construction related (not our target audience as far as out immediate organisations). Assessor training and support is specifically looking at delivering NVQ assessor type qualifications – do any of us do that? If you do then you need to consider putting yourself forward for that. This leaves us with Skills for Jobs. This is split into three areas.
- Pre-employment training for Local Employment Partnerships = 1000 starts
- Additional Skills for Jobs for rural areas = 250 starts
- Through the Gate support for offenders = 250 starts
- £1.5 million for pre-employment training for individuals recruited through the LEPs
- £375,000 for additional Skills for Jobs in rural areas
- £375,000 for “Through the Gate” support for Offenders
Attached is the full contract specification, including where this activity is to be delivered, to whom and the types of activity looked for.
Priority Norfolk locations (as well as rural) are:
- Great Yarmouth –Central & Northgate and Nelson
- King’s Lynn –North Lynn and St Margaret’s with St Nicholas
- Norwich –Mancroft
If any of you are considering leading an application yourself, then please get in contact with us and we will put you in touch with our colleagues across the eastern region to see if we can support you in that.
If you feel you have a service to offer but do not feel you can lead (if it is that you even have PQQ for this), then the advice of Norfolk Unites is to contact Teresa Frith at Barnfield College ASAP. Teresa is part of an ACER (Association of Colleges in the Eastern Region) application for this contract and from experience they have been very successful previously. Organisations will need to be named in their applications to be able to deliver and their deadline is the end of October. To be included in the bid, organisations will need to put themselves forward ASAP.
E-mail Teresa at teresa.frith@barnfield.ac.uk
We apologise for the short notice, but in the future Norfolk Unites will be ready to respond rather then having to react, which is all part of the development work that has been undertaken and will be part of the processes we are trying to put in place.
Date Added: September 30th 2008
