Reed in Partnership are interested in working with both end-to-end and specialist providers to deliver Fair Start in the following Lots:
Lot 1: Glasgow City
Lot 2: North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire
Lot 3: Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross
Lot 4: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling
Lot 5: City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Mid-Lothian, Scottish Borders, Fife
Lot 6: Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire
Fair Start will be a voluntary programme offering specialist support to long-term unemployed people and claimants with health conditions, disabilities and a wide range of other complex barriers. Fair Start contracts will begin delivering in 2018 and will replace the transitional services Work First Scotland and Work Able Scotland, which will run from April 2017. Providers wishing to deliver this service with Reed in Partnership should complete our Expression of Interest and Premises annex which can be found here.
Please ensure that the EOI and premises annex are returned to [email protected] by 5pm on the 24 March.
If you have any questions please contact a member of the Supply Chain Development Team on [email protected], or 0207 708 6063.