Tender: Delivery Partner for Connect to Work Programme in West Northamptonshire (Support for People with Disabilities)

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West Northamptonshire Council is seeking experienced delivery partners to implement the South Midlands Connect to Work Programme in West Northamptonshire. The programme, a Department for Work and Pensions initiative, supports people with disabilities or long-term health conditions to find and sustain employment and aims to help 1,565 economically inactive residents in West Northamptonshire over the next five years. Delivery will provide personalised support including employability training, confidence building, and workplace adjustment advice, increase awareness of and access to local job opportunities, identify and address barriers to employment, reduce economic inactivity and reliance on other services through sustained employment, promote diversity and inclusion among local employers, and work collaboratively with other South Midlands local authorities. Funding is allocated to the South Midlands Partnership region and West Northamptonshire Council is the accountable body for Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, North Northamptonshire, and West Northamptonshire; this tender relates specifically to West Northamptonshire.