Working in Partnership with Working Links (Employment) Ltd        

The DWP Progress2work-LinkUP will engage and support disadvantaged customers, helping them work towards securing and sustaining employment. The programme will offer help on a range of issues - typically training, housing, debt and family breakdown.

There are two elements to this provision: progress2work-LinkUP, and the welfare reform drug recovery pilot. Both are voluntary and open to customers who are eligible for any working age benefit, and meet the ‘disadvantaged in the labour market’ criteria, i.e. recovered/ stabilised drug and/ or alcohol misusers, offending background, homelessness.

 Working Links has pre-qualified as a Prime Contracting organisation and seeks partners who can add value to our core Case Management delivery model. We are looking for partners who can support Progress2work-LinkUP customers across the following contract package areas:  

• CPA 5 South West Wales, South Wales Valleys
• CPA 9 Devon and Cornwall
• CPA 13 East Midlands
• CPA 16 North East Yorkshire & the Humber
• CPA 18 Merseyside & Halton
• CPA 19 Northumbria, South Tyne and Wear Valley, and Tees Valley

Please complete our Standard Information Sharing Template, and send it to shirley.viggars@workinglinks.co.uk by 2pm on Friday 12 March 2010.