Future Skills Programme · UK public procurement notice

Our Vision

The Future Skills Programme will equip prisoners approaching the end of their sentence with the necessary skills and employer relationships to secure sustainable employment on release.

Our Ambition

Skills training will be delivered across multiple prisons between 2023 and 2025 to support prison leavers into employment. We want to develop truly innovative approaches to equipping prison leavers with skills to get and sustain jobs for the future. Any programme will include, as a minimum, a guaranteed interview and ideally a job commitment for those that complete the course.

Our Plan

We want to work with businesses who have recruitment needs and will commit to providing job opportunities. We are keen to engage with a diverse range of businesses across traditional and growth sectors that can offer prisoners a life changing opportunity.

Why work with us?

The Future Skills Programme will offer a range of potential benefits to employers, including:

• access to a diverse talent pool from which to cost-effectively recruit
• the ability to deliver bespoke sector-specific training to meet your business needs
• the opportunity to upskill individuals who are motivated and ready to work, and who are proven to have high levels of retention, reliability, and performance
• dedicated support from the skills and work teams in prisons, and
• an opportunity to test and shape innovative approaches to rehabilitation in partnership with HMPPS.

In issuing this Prior Information Notice, HMPPS is seeking to inform the market of this planned procurement with a view to initiating market consultation on the 5th December 2022. We are keen to hear views from a wide range of employers and training providers. We want to understand more about existing practice, innovative delivery designs, identified barriers to employment for prison leavers, and potential procurement routes.

We reserve the right to supplement and vary the conduct of the prior engagement process. Where we do this, we will act transparently and treat all suppliers who have expressed an interest equally.

Please note that the MoJ and its advisors give no warranty in respect of the accuracy, permanence or completeness of any information provided. Reliance on, or use of, any such information is entirely at the risk of the person so doing and, save in the case of fraud, under no circumstances will the MoJ or any of its advisors be liable for or accept any responsibility for any cost, expense or liability incurred by any person relying upon or using such information.

The procurement exercise will run via the eSourcing portal ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk ↗. You can register here.