Estimated Value
Up to £2,333,333
Deadline
Not specified
Published
13 May 2025
Type
services
Overview
Stirling Council and Clackmannanshire Council are seeking to award a flexible framework for the provision of employability support services. There will be three separate lots.
Providers should also be able to demonstrate the impact of the support that their work has had on participants. This will cover Stages 1 and 2 of the Employability Pipeline.
Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants)- Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required. Providers will be required to demonstrate a range of experience in delivering pre-employment training opportunities.
Eligibility & compliance
Providers will be required to demonstrate significant levels of understanding and experience in successfully identifying the barriers that affect people’s participation in employability support, together with detail around a range of strategies and approaches that they would then employ to help people tackle barriers.
Additional details
This may include those in specific sectors like hospitality, tourism, construction and social care. Any experience of delivering work experience opportunities should clearly show how these prepare people for work, and how they support individuals to build a work ethic.
This will cover Stages 3 and 4 of the Employability Pipeline. Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants) - Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required.
Providers will be required to demonstrate a track record of supporting people to retain employment, along with an ability to build meaningful relationship with employers (and the wider workforce), supporting both employers and participants to find creative solutions to difficult work place situations which may arise and be able to detail how these approaches have supported job sustainment. This will cover Stage 5 of the Employability Pipeline. Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants) - Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required.
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Award Details
Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau Ltd
£2,333,333
Transition Stirling
£2,333,333
Forth Valley Welcome
£2,333,333
Scottish Action for Mental Health
£2,333,333
Resonate Together
£2,333,333
Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface
£2,333,333
STEMRAN LIMITED
£2,333,333
Stirling Community Enterprise
£2,333,333
Barnardo's
£2,333,333
Capability Scotland
£2,333,333
Values into Action Scotland
£2,333,333
Impact Arts
£2,333,333
Borders College
£2,333,333
Lead Scotland
£2,333,333
CERT
£2,333,333
Home-Start Clackmannanshire
£2,333,333
Volunteering Matters
£2,333,333
Home-Start Stirling
£2,333,333
Forth Valley College
£2,333,333
Salvation Army Trustee Company(The)
£2,333,333
Triage Central Limited
£2,333,333
Community wellbeing and education CIC
£2,333,333
One Parent Families Scotland
£2,333,333
Includem
£2,333,333
Routes to Work Ltd
£2,333,333
Parker Enterprise Company Ltd
£2,333,333
ENABLE Scotland (leading the Way)
£2,333,333
ACTS Scotland (CiC)
£2,333,333
Camphill Blair Drummond Trust
£2,333,333
Progressive Pathways Limited
£2,333,333
The Conservation Volunteers Scotland
£2,333,333
Next Generation Training Limited
£2,333,333
FEL Scotland
£2,333,333
Callander Youth Project Trust
£2,333,333
Nithcree Training
£2,333,333
Ceteris (scotland) Ltd
£2,333,333
The Challenges Group
£2,333,333
Raeburn Training Ltd
£2,333,333
Recyke-a-bike
£2,333,333
PeoplePlus Group Ltd
£2,333,333
New College Lanarkshire
£2,333,333
Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise Ltd
£2,333,333
Positive Qualities Ltd
£2,333,333
Child Central Training Limited
£2,333,333
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Published
13 May 2025
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