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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Staffordshire County Council

Connect to Work

Value£389k
Awarded19 Nov 2025
Published25 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
THE GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED
Awarded value£389k
Award date19 Nov 2025

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
michelle.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines the Government's strategy to invest £240m to support this ambition and help improve workplace health and keep people in work, including trials of combined public services for those out of work due to ill health.

The strategy will bring fundamental reform that transforms relationships with local areas and ensures a strong foundation of partnership working to support people into good, sustainable work.

Connect to Work is the first major element of the Get Britain Working Strategy.

It will take a collaborative, locally led approach to tackling 'Hidden Unemployment'.

It will help connect local work, health and skills support.

The funding provides a coherent, systematic and joined up approach to maximise the benefits available for individuals and local communities.

Connect to Work will support the wider development of locally planned systems to drive growth, working jointly with the Government.

It will be an important strand in local plans to tackle inactivity and expand employment opportunity.

By encouraging join up between health systems and employment support, Connect to Work will support those, primarily, currently outside the workforce and facing greater labour market disadvantages, to stay in work and get back into work.

In turn, supporting the Government's ambition for a more inclusive economy, supporting local people to realise their potential and supporting local and national growth.

Connect to Work will provide out of work participants with intensive employment support for up to 12 months.

It will also include support for up to 4 months for people in-work who are at risk of losing their job.

The support will be based on the well evidenced Individual Placement and Support (IPS) or Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) Fidelity models as appropriate to the participant.

Help will include early access to jobs based on job preferences, access to a wide range of support including job and skills matching, on the job training and help to sustain employment, which might include job coaching at work, training, support from a workplace mentor and regular workplace reviews.

Support will be provided to the employer as well as the participant.

Connect to Work will also provide tailored self-employment support where appropriate.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White

The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines the Government's strategy to invest £240m to support this ambition and help improve workplace health and keep people in work, including trials of combined public services for those out of work due to ill health.

02

The strategy will bring fundamental reform

The strategy will bring fundamental reform that transforms relationships with local areas and ensures a strong foundation of partnership working to support people into good, sustainable work.

03

It will help connect local work, health

It will help connect local work, health and skills support.

04

Connect to Work will support the wider

Connect to Work will support the wider development of locally planned systems to drive growth, working jointly with the Government.

05

By encouraging join up between health systems

By encouraging join up between health systems and employment support, Connect to Work will support those, primarily, currently outside the workforce and facing greater labour market disadvantages, to stay in work and get back into work.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e87e
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
076917-2025
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