Expression of Interest to work with Standguide Limited on the DWP European Social Fund (England) 2014-2020 programme in:

Cheshire and Warrington Lancashire Cumbria Coventry and Warwickshire

About us

Standguide have been working in the Welfare to Work industry since 1990, delivering bespoke training and mentoring to over 120,000 customers since we began. We believe that every person who participates in our services has the potential to be successful and will be engaged, motivated and encouraged to succeed; this belief is something we encourage our partners and subcontractors to embrace, contributing to dynamic successful delivery.We are applying for funding for the DWP ESF programme in Cheshire and Warrington, Lancashire, Cumbria, and Coventry and Warwickshire, and we are seeking Expressions of Interest from prospective voluntary, private and public sector organisations who would like to work with us in one or more of these areas.

Programme Overview

For each of the areas identified above, the programme is voluntary and seeks to reduce the number of people who are not in employment, or who are economically inactive, by delivering a package of support to enable participants to enter sustainable employment. The programme will last for 3 years, with the first expected engagement being in November 2016. Participants will engage on the programme for a maximum of 52 weeks, and to be eligible must be unemployed or inactive and fall into one or more of the following categories:

Long term Unemployed or Inactive (26 weeks or longer) Basic Skills need Have more than one barrier to employment. Barriers may include:

o A lone parent; o An older worker (50+); o An ex offender; o Caring Responsibilities (including those returning to employment when caring

responsibilities end); o Have physical disability or health condition, including Sensory Impairments; o Mental Health or Learning Disability o Drug/Alcohol dependency; o An ethnic minority; o Have low or no qualifications; o Language barrier (English not first language, etc.)

Contract Size

The indicative overall contract sizes from each specification are:LEP Maximum Contract Value Minimum number of startsCheshire and Warrington £1,800,000 600Lancashire £2,700,000 1,714Cumbria £3,150,000 2,000Coventry and Warwickshire £2,169,000 1,000

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Payment

The payment terms for this contract to our end to end suppliers will reflect our own payment terms from the DWP. These are based upon a 25% service fee (split equally across the first 24 months of the contract) with 40% of the contract value being allocated to short job outcomes (paid on a per short job basis) and 35% of the contract value being allocated to sustained job outcomes (again paid on a per sustained job basis). These payments will be subject to a Standguide management fee – percentage to be confirmed.

Registering your interest

This document is to be completed by all organisations interested in working with Standguide Limited as a delivery partner. If you have previously completed an Expression of Interest for other tenders, we would ask that you still complete this tender specific Expression of Interest.

Please note that:

Completion of this document does not infer any contractual agreement between Standguide Limited and your organisation, but rather will help us to assess your organisation’s ability to work with us as a subcontractor or partner.

More detail may be requested in relation to specific partnership opportunities as they arise.

Please return your completed Expressions of Interest to:

businessdevelopment@standguide.co.uk

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Introduction to Working with Standguide LimitedPlease complete these basic questions before moving on to Sections 1 to 12

Employability only: Which type of supplier are you?

End to end provider

Specialist intervention(s) partner

Spot purchases and/or organisations to which we signpost

Section 1: Your Organisation

1.1 Company details

Company name

Registered address

Including post code

Company registration and/or charity number

VAT number

Contact name

Contact number

Contact email address

Organisation website

Is your organisation on the Skills Funding Agency’s Register of Training Organisations?

If yes, please provide ROTO number.

Yes No

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1.2 Organisation Overview

Please indicate the type of organisation:

Private Third Sector

Public Sector Social Enterprise

Consortium/SPV Other (specify)

Please indicate how many staff (FTE/volunteers) you have:

Do you currently work/ have worked with Standguide?

Yes No

If you have answered ‘yes’ above, please give details below:

1.3 Finances

Please indicate your turnover and profit for the last full financial year:

Turnover £

Profit £

Please confirm that you are able to provide audited accounts for the last three years: Yes No

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Section 2: Delivery Locations

2.1 Delivery Areas

Please indicate the local areas where you can deliver your services:

Cheshire & Warrington Cheshire West and Chester

Cheshire East

Warrington

Lancashire Burnley

Chorley

Hyndburn

Lancaster

Pendle

Preston

Rossendale

West Lancashire

Wyre

Cumbria Allerdale District

Barrow-in-Furness District

Carlisle

Copeland

Kendal

Penrith

Coventry and Warwickshire Coventry

Warwick

Stratford on Avon

North Warwickshire

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Rugby

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2.2 Delivery Infrastructure – Please give details of your current delivery infrastructure, indicating whether premises are fixed or outreach - (add additional lines if required)

Geographical areas: Address Sq Metres Facilities

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Section 3: Services

3.1 Skills

Please indicate the services/ training courses you have experience of, or are accredited to deliver (add additional lines if required).

3.2 Additional specialist services

Please indicate the services you have experience of, or are accredited to deliver:

Reducing Offending/ Re-offending support Attitudinal skills

Debt advice/management ID and bank accounts

Money management Housing advice/management

Access to housing Benefit advice/management

Gambling advice/support Family advice/support

Relationship advice/support Carer advice/support

Childcare advice/support Motivation and confidence building

Offending disclosure advice Condition management

Support for people with learning difficultiesSupport for people with mental health needs

Support for people with physical disabilities Alcohol misuse advice and support

Drug and substance misuse advice and support

Dual diagnosis

Sexual health advice and support Other (specify)

3.3 Innovation

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Please detail any innovative services that you can offer (maximum 250 words):

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Section 4: Customer Groups

4.1 Customer Groups

Please indicate which customer groups you have experience of working with:

BME Groups Carers

Care Leavers ESA

Ex-military personnel Ex-offenders

Homeless people JSA 18-24

JSA 25+ JSA Early Entrants

JSA Ex-IB Learners completing apprenticeships

Learners completing Level 2 qualifications Learners completing Level 3 qualifications

Learners with basic skills needs Learners with ESOL needs

Lone parents Offenders / ex-Offenders

Over 50s People who are drug or alcohol misusers

People with learning difficulties People with mental health needs

People with other physical health conditions Professionals/executives

Refugees or asylum seekers Whole families

Young people (NEET) 14 – 18 years old Young people (NEET) 19 – 24 years old

Other (specify)

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Section 5: Quality

5.1 Policies

Please indicate which of the following policies your organisation has in place:

(You must commit to the cost of ensuring that all of the policies and procedures are in place prior to working with Standguide Limited.)

Anti-bribery Anti-Bullying Policy

Business Code of Ethics Business Continuity

Fraud Protection Whistle Blowing

Data Protection and Storage Disability and Discrimination Policy

Equality and Diversity Disciplinary & Grievance

Health and Safety Complaints

Safety of Work Placements Staff Vetting Policy

Environmental and Sustainability TUPE

Quality Assurance Recruitment and Personnel

Safeguarding Prevent

Information SecurityIf yes to Information Security, has this been approved by DWP/SFA?

5.2 Inspections – Ofsted/ Estyn/ HMIe/ ETI/ External Verifier

Please provide the following information for all inspections:

Area: Grade: Date: Provision:

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5.3 Standards and AccreditationsPlease indicate which of the following your organisation holds or is working towards:

Investors in People Achieved Working towards

Merlin Standard Achieved Working towards

Matrix Achieved Working towards

ISO 27001 Achieved Working towards

ISO 9001 Achieved Working towards

ISO 14001 Achieved Working towards

Training Quality Standard Achieved Working towards

Total Quality Management Achieved Working towards

Positive About Disability Achieved Working towards

Other (please specify):

5.4 Terminated Contracts

Have you had any contracts terminated during the past 3 years?

Yes No

If you have answered ‘yes’ above, please give details below:

Please continue to Section 6 on the next page

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Section 6: Recent Contract Delivery Performance

6.1 Contract Performance Details

Please provide the following details of your most recent performance for past or current contracted services during the last 3 years. Please indicate both percentages and physical volumes.

Funding body/ prime contractor

RegionCustomer target group

Contract start and end dates

Customer volumes (p/a)

Targets (e.g. job entry rate, positive outcomes)

Outcomes achieved

Sustained targets

Sustained achieved

Please continue to Section 7 on the next page

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Section 7: Customer Engagement

7.1 Organisations providing referrals

Please indicate the organisations you currently work with to generate referrals in each of the areas you have listed a preference for. How do you generate referrals from these? (150 words max per area)

Cheshire & Warrington

Lancashire

Cumbria

Coventry & Warwickshire

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Section 8: Community Engagement

8.1 Engaging with local communities

Please provide an overview of the characteristics of the local communities in the areas you have listed a preference for. How have you engaged with the local community? (250 words max per area)

Cheshire & Warrington

Lancashire

Cumbria

Coventry & Warwickshire

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Section 9: Local Support

9.1 Helping customers overcome barriers

For each of the geographic areas you have listed in section 2.1, please detail any specialist organisations/ agencies you have used to support the customer groups (identified in section 4.1) to overcome barriers. (No word limit)

Cheshire & Warrington

Lancashire

Cumbria

Coventry & Warwickshire

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Section 10: Growth Sectors and Key Employers

10.1 Growth Sectors

Please provide an overview of the main industry sectors in the areas you have indicated a preference for. Which of these sectors are currently experiencing growth? (250 words max per area)

Cheshire & Warrington

Lancashire

Cumbria

Coventry & Warwickshire

10.2 Key Employers

Who are the key employers you work with in the areas you have indicated a preference for? How will you work with these to achieve job outcomes for the customers on this programme (350 words max per area)

Cheshire & Warrington

Lancashire

Cumbria

Coventry & Warwickshire

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Section 11: Additional Information

11.1 Additional Organisation Information

Please provide a brief overview of your organisation, focusing on areas not covered elsewhere in this Expression of Interest form. This may include, for example, your unique selling points, your organisational culture and values and your top three strengths. (500 words max).

Section 12: Declaration

12.1 Form Completion Details

Name of person completing this form:

Position within the organisation:

Date of completion:

To ensure we have the most up to date information, please inform us from time to time if the information you have given us changes. Should you not want us to keep your information on file in the future, please contact us and let us know.

Please note: all the information you give us is confidential.

Thank you for your interest in working with Standguide Limited.

Please return this EOI to us my emailing it to businessdevelopment@standguide.co.uk by 5pm Thursday 24th March 2016.

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