Award of Working Locally - North & North East Employment Support Contract to SOAR Community

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Sheffield City Council awarded a contract to SOAR Community for the Working Locally - North & North East project, a Work Club-based employment support approach located within North and North East Sheffield.

The work clubs are neighbourhood-based and link with key local anchor organisations including libraries.

They focus on people who are long-term unemployed or at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, initially including those on JSA (or Universal Credit if they would have been on JSA), Income Support, or economically inactive, as well as individuals with additional vulnerabilities such as lone parents, care leavers, unemployed for 1 year or more but not on work programme, work programme returners, people in housing need (including rent arrears as defined by the housing provider), people in financial hardship (including significant problematic personal debt, accessing emergency financial support such as local assistance scheme or practical support such as food banks), people at increased risk of being in poverty, first generation migrants with the right to work, and Sheffield residents aged 50 or over.

Other vulnerabilities and barriers can be considered by agreement with the commissioner.

The contract value is £49,400.