Charity Consortium Bids for Prime Role in New Work Programme

A group of charities, including Groundwork UK, the National Housing Federation and the Shaw Trust, is bidding for the role as a prime contractor in the new Work Programme, the employment programme provided by the Department for Work and Pensions. The group is led by 3SC, a bidding consortium that has almost 900 charity members.

The Chief Executive of 3SC, Michael O’Toole, explained: “We are fielding a strong consortia approach with other lead organisations to enable us to get as much funding to the front line in the most straightforward way.”

He said that 3SC had strengthened its offer to make it easier to meet the “challenging financial arrangements of the new contracting environment”.

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